Quotes About Self-image

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

I love clothes. No brands want to dress me.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

Men. It's all about saving face. Every argument, every duel, every battle, every war. You would level a world to keep from being made to look a fool. And so you shall.

The man is a drunk with a drunk's bloated self-image – Abyss knows, drunks think themselves clever, and measure the prowess of their wit by the genius of their rationalizations. Of course, the first fool they deceive is themselves.

She enjoyed being invisible, imagining herself as a three-dimensional linocut - the empty space, the bit that's cut out.

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I donned my smartest, blackest clothes and brushed my hair until it gleamed like jet. I put earrings of obsidian into my ears, and brushed the skin around my eyes with a kiss of charcoal. My mirror showed me the image of an aloof young man of glacial beauty. I was a black and white creature, even my lips were without colour, and my eyes were the darkest grey. It was as I desired.

When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

I could do with losing a few pounds off my bum, but I enjoy my social life and going out for dinner far too much to have the nicest bum in the world.

Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.