Quotes About Self-image

younger women as they pass us in the street, with their cigarettes, their makeup, their tight-seamed dresses, their tiny handbags, their smooth, washed hair, and we turn away, we put down our heads, we keep on pushing the pram up the hill.

we would all like to be taken for what we would like to be

But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said. "What?" "Never mind. Before your time," Lucas said.

He dressed in dark sport coats over black golf shirts because, he thought, they made him look smaller. They didn't; they made him look like a hole in space.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said.

Taryn was now thirty-four. She still had those major assets—she was blond, good-looking, with interesting places in all the interesting places.

God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.

when people have heard of you, favorably or not, they change; they become, through shyness or the other qualities that publicity inspires, something they are not under ordinary circumstances

Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.

Do not become too concerned about what others may think of you. Be very concerned about what you think of yourself.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

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

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.

Someone ask me out. I'm tired of being fugly and lonely.