Quotes About Self-image

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

You know you're getting fat when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

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.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

Remember, breasts don't sag as we get older, they relax.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.