50 Boudoir Quotes About Intimate Photographs Celebrating Women’s Bodies

Fans of photography will enjoy these Boudoir quotes about the form of intimate feminine photography.

The word Boudoir is a French word for a woman’s private dressing room.

Boudoir photographs are photographs taken of women either in their private dressing rooms or dressed as they might be while in a private dressing room or bedroom.

However, the location doesn’t matter as much as the posture and clothing.

Boudoir photography does not show nudity but instead suggests it sensually and intimately.

Boudoir photographers use tricks to have clients dress skimpily or cover private areas of their bodies with their hands, arms, or other objects.

Read these Boudoir quotes to learn more about this type of photography.

Boudoir Quotes to Inspire Confidence

These quotes will help encourage you to feel more confident in your own skin and body.

1. “Happy girls are the prettiest.” — Audrey Hepburn

2. “A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.” — Marilyn Monroe

3. “Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.” — Eve Ensler

4. “I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.” — Marilyn Monroe

5. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel

6. “The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” — Blake Lively

7. “The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” — Audrey Hepburn

8. “You define beauty yourself. Society doesn’t define your beauty.” — Lady Gaga

9. “The best color in the world is the one that looks good on you.” — Coco Chanel

10. “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am radiant as the sun.” — Katniss Everdeen

Beauty and Boudoir Quotes

These quotes will help you find and feel confident in your beauty.

11. “Spend less time in the mirror and more time feeling wonderful.” — Frédéric Fekkai

12. “The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.” — Irina Shayk

13. “I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.” — Emma Watson

14. “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” — Sophia Loren

15. “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful without needing someone to tell you.” — Mandy Hale

16. “There’s beauty in the things we think are imperfect. That sounds very cliché, but it’s true.” — Laverne Cox

17. “Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.” ― Megan Jayne Crabbe

18. “Beauty is about perception, not about makeup. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.” — Kevyn Aucoin

19. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe

20. “Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty: it’s a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.” — Michelle Phan

Top Boudoir Quotes

Here are some of the top quotes related to boudoir photography online.

21. “The female body is a masterpiece.” — Natalie Cook

22. “A lady never shows her soul outside the boudoir.” — Shonda Rimes

23. “The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.” — Beyoncé

24. “You don’t have to be beautiful to be wildly attractive.” — Diana Vreeland

25. “I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality, and sexuality.” — Shannon Tweed

26. “Always wear sexy lingerie. Others may not see it, but trust me, they feel it.” — Lebo Grand

27. “Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.” — Gloria Steinem

28. “The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength, and wellbeing.” — Christiane Northrup

29. “The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.” — Brittany Josephina

30. “Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it’s to keep alive, it’s to keep awake, it’s to keep watching, it’s to keep feeling, it’s to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.” — Charlotte Rampling

The Female Body and Boudoir Quotes

These quotes celebrate the female body and femininity.

31. “Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.” — Tyra Banks

32. “We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.” — Lauren Hutton

33. “I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down.” — Christina Aquilera

34. “I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 to embrace my body. To look back and think of my beauty: How did I miss it? Let’s not wait another moment.” — Ashley Asti

35. “I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.” — Kate Hudson

36. “No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what.” — Joanna Krupa

37. “The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.” — Christina Aguilera

38. “Girls of all kinds can be beautiful—from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between.” — Tyra Banks

40. “I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are.” — Taylor Swift

30. “If we make self-love or body acceptance conditional, the truth is, we will never be happy with ourselves. The reality is that our bodies are constantly changing, and they will never remain exactly the same.” — Chrissy King

More Boudoir Quotes

Here are a few more quotes about women’s beauty and femininity to help you be confident as you are.

41. “Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin—that’s what really makes you beautiful.” — Bobbi Brown

42. “I can’t think of a better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone

43. “Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That or a kick-ass red lipstick.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

44. “You’ve been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise Hay

45. “I feel that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.” — Shakira

46. “I wish I’d known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.” — Ilene Beckerman

47. “You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticize yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care.” — Jessica Ortner

48. “To start telling people that you’re beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything.” — Margaret Cho

49. “And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.” — Mark Anthony

50. “Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork … My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.” — Alfre Woodard

Why Do People Do Boudoir Photographs?

People have boudoir photos taken for various reasons, but one of the most important things to consider before taking them is if you are comfortable doing so because you shouldn’t do anything you are uncomfortable with.

Some of the main reasons women have boudoir photographs taken are to celebrate their bodies, embrace who they are in the moment, or give them as a sensual gift to their partner.

Share these Boudoir quotes with your friends who are considering having these pictures taken, and post any comments about boudoir photographs in the comment section below.