Quotes About Self-image

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.' Critic John Berger's well-known quote has been true throughout the history of Western culture, and it is more true now than ever.

Dieting makes women think of ourselves as sick, religious babies.

It is dead easy to become an anorexic.

The problem with cosmetics exists only when women feel invisible or inadequate without them. The problem with working out exists only if women hate ourselves when we don't. When a woman is forced to adorn herself to buy a hearing, when she needs her grooming in order to protect her identity, when she goes hungry in order to keep her job, when she must attract a lover so that she can take care of her children, that is exactly what makes 'beauty' hurt.

Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

I was quite a fat lad.

By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

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've thought about my relationship to my body, my body dysmorphia, and what that means as someone who's like, 'Oh, I'm going to be on camera.' Sometimes it makes my body dysmorphia worse, but I've also tried to not let my mental illness rob the joy of getting to do something I've always wanted to do.

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

I don't go to events to have my picture taken. I don't really care if my name is mentioned on a blog. It's not my thing.

When I do my hair down, it just does not look good. It's just stringy, and it's like a hot mess.

I would never mess around with braids and curls and everything.

I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.

I believe the way we dress on a daily basis is our message we put out to the world.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

I'm used to people commenting on my body, even women I have just met.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.