Quotes About Standards

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.