Quotes About Self-image

I did a documentary on Farrah for Lifetime. Actually, a do-over documentary, because Farrah didn't like the way she looked in the first one. And she was right.

He who worries about reputation, Has a reputation to worry about.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

As I'm sure you know, whenever there is a mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take a look at yourself. Even though we all know what we look like, we all like just to look at our reflections, if only to see how we're doing.

She was beautiful, and Tristan was willing to bet she didn't think so. The truly beautiful ones never did.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before;

To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it

Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride related to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Snow Speaks to the Mirror My nose is smudged, my hair in tangles. I do not like myself at angles. Skin's not clear, eyes all red. Another hour in my bed would be a gift, would feel real nice. But can I trust your strange advice? Don't be daft. I won't be guided by a glass that's so one-sided.

You never want to look in a mirror, Lula said. Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight. - Stephanie Plum

Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. I gotta get me a pair if those, she said, eyeballing my shorts. I've still got pretty good legs, you know. She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things? Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.

I'm short. I have to think tall.

They congratulated themselves and went back out to their sodas and Chex mix, leaving me in front of the mirror, a toddler's fussed-over Barbie abandoned in the sandbox. I blinked back my tears and forced myself to look in the mirror. Looking

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

People tell me that I should eat more, but they don't know me: I eat a lot. It's pretty unpleasant that people assume every model is anorexic and bulimic.

I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country.

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.