Quotes About Self-image

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm alright.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.