Quotes About Standards

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

women who looked like fashion models—admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I

The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.

Women's writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.

The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.

Is beauty really sex? Does a woman's sexuality correspond to what she looks like? Does she have the right to sexual pleasure and self-esteem because she's a person, or must she earn that right through beauty, as she used to through marriage?

O mito da beleza gera nas mulheres uma redução de amor-próprio, com o resultado de altos lucros para as empresas.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Beauty" is not universal or changeless, though the West pretends that all ideals of female beauty stem from one Platonic Ideal Woman; the Maori admire a fat vulva, and the Padung, droopy breasts.

A man's right to confer judgment on any woman's beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given.

They reclassify healthy female flesh as "cellulite," an invented "condition" that was imported into the United States by vogue only in 1973; they refer to this texture as "disfiguring," unsightly," "polluted with toxins." Before 1973, it was normal female flesh.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it.

You have the right to make this determination, even if I don't appreciate it. But at times like this, I almost wish I could relax my standards. If I did, I might console myself with the possibility of using a dull, rusty needle on you someday.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

Except that Blair wasn't nearly as fat as Judy Garland. She was a size two!

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

I'm never gonna date again, because I can't imagine meeting a woman that's good enough for my daughters.

I put the most pressure on myself. I'm so critical and I think that's a hard mentality to live with. You're not really satisfied with anything you do.

You can be a really terrible actor - I won't mention any names - but, as long as you're good-looking, you can get by with it. Okay, Keanu Reeves. He's a diabolical actor, but he still looks good.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.