Quotes About Self-image

Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too.

Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

it turned out that a parent's disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one's self-image.

Slowly, Kate took off her robe and peeled out of her nightgown, trying not to notice how white and sticklike her legs were. Even worse was the battlefield that had been her breasts. She looked ruined, like a little boy, only there were the scars.

I'm so happy 'cause today I've found my friends....They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

The desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

How come I only get booked for MILF scenes now? Whatever. Off to tan and then going to see my girls on the Wicked set.

Yes I am shorter than people report but with my heals on I am about 5 foot 6, so that is probably where they are getting it from.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

It's my personal theory that only 27 percent of perceived confidence is actual confidence, and the rest is sham. The key is: If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference.

Staring at herself in the mirror, she found that she'd lost the ability to see herself through her own eyes. She was only what humans would see. Not a girl or a woman or someone in between. They wouldn't see her loneliness or fear or courage, let alone her humanity. They would see only obscenity. Calamity.

Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues

She looked across the street at herself—as seen, remembered, and conjured by the dreamer—and she didn't see obscenity, or calamity, or godspawn. She saw a proud, smiling girl with beautiful blue skin. Because that was what he saw, and this was his mind.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such »

It is the condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such.