Quotes About Self-image

We got boobies! the kid me said, gawking at my chest. I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.

The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg. This proof that it was possible for a child, in spite of a rocky start, to turn eventually into a suave and polished boulevardier with finely chiselled features heartened him a good deal, causing him to hope for the best.

The world is full of men who ought never to shave their upper lip, and Blair Eggleston was one of them. Coming out into the open, as it were, like this, he had revealed himself the possessor of a not very good mouth. A peevish mouth. The sort of mouth that bred doubts in a girl.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

Losing tears along the seam of your own image of yourself. It is a mark of shame that causes internal injury, but no visible damage.

The mirror used to be my best friend. Now it is an assassin.

that the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

wanting to look good to others is also a form of the desire of the eyes.

She feels ugly when she cries, like a tomato breaking open

Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.

Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.

But more often the woman was alone and would walk around naked for some reason, neither beautiful enough nor ugly enough to make sense.

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong.

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.

Be as you wish to seem.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.