Self-acceptance Champions Gifts

'Does sumo make me look fat?'

Girls with great limbs never worry about their family tree.

"Remember how I've always had a hard time asking for help?"

The words 'Well done ' take seconds to say, but will be long remembered and appreciated.

Three card brag - I'm great! I'm really handsome & I'm very rich.

"At first I thought I'd hate it, but now I have to have it."

Don't Take No For an Answer

"Who cares what little kids think? What's important is that you believe in yourself."

Three years ago during a special episode of the Ask Sadie™ show, our resident octogenarian asked readers for advice about how she could deal with her midlife crisis. You should try a radical makeover. When I hit midlife, I dyed my hair, got some tattoos, and dropped 75 pounds. My husband barely recognized me when he returned from overseas. He was not happy with my "new self," so I divorced him rather than change who I'd become. It was the best decision I'd made since I cut my thieving mother out

'I have way too much respect and dignity to dye the grey out of my hair... so instead could you all just put on these brown-tinted glasses.'

'It's Always 'Good Dog'—Never 'Great Dog.'

"I am very comfortable with my bovinity."

'Well, I must be going. I have some shopping to do with the money you saved by acting as your own lawyer.'

"Do you promise to love and comfort yourself, on good days and bad, for richer, for poorer, in weight gain and loss, as long as you shall live?"

"Jazz fusion, modern country or my podcast - my podcast it is!"

'You know, it's not good for kids' self-esteem to keep harping on about this 'naughty or nice' stuff.'

Self Love Witch

'She was always very proud of her figure.'

I heart my bum.

"My left buttock is noticeable larger than my right and my dog is missing his hind legs."

"You've got to learn to love yourself. Start by 'Friending" yourself on Facebook."

'Are we birds? Are these wings? Well, let's get rid of this idea that we can't fly!'

'You've got a lot of nerve, lady, calling my son's answers 'wrong'...His answers may be different, but they're just as special and beautiful as anyone else's.'

Celebrating National No Bra Day

"Gracie, I know you think Frida Kahlo deserves admiration as a great painter...and I know you want to honor her by changing your name to Frida. But aren't you going a little too far?"

If Only Magazine: The Pot Belly Is In!

I'm the gorilla's nuts... I'm the dog's bo****ks... He's never been good at hiding his light under a bushel.

"I've had therapy and this IS the best possible version of myself."

"No, you still look fat."

Gok Wan

Actually, it's kind of a relief to discover I wasn't a thin guy trapped in a heavy guy's body.

'Of course you're big and clumsy, but don't forget one thing. You're supposed to be big and clumsy.'

'What matters is what you think. What others think is none of your beeswax.'

Finally, a fanny-pack he could be proud of.

Yeah, I guess it works better for New York than mine does for Maine.