Quotes About Self-image

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

I feel I'm really glad I don't look like the celebrities out there who are beautiful, because there are a lot of stereotypes attached to that.

I see it as someone who's been burned doesn't have to be put in this box where they can't be glamorous - I try and live that vision all the time and push those stereotypes away. That's all you can do.

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

Walk out of the house the way you feel you want to look that day - it doesn't mean you have to stick to that style for the rest of your life.

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

I don't like pictures of me showing my hair sticking up in back.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I always thought those old drab clothes from 'Silk Stockings' were the worst things I wore.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.