Quotes About Self-image

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.

I've never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror - I don't think anybody ever is. And I'd like to be taller, too: I'm 5 ft. 9in.

Every teacher in elementary school loved me because I was always goofing around. I was taller than most of the guys and girls, and fattest, too.

I'd like to be two inches taller, but it just ain't happening.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

I was always the tallest. I was five foot seven when I finished junior school.

I've had women telling me I'm bloody gorgeous but I haven't had any kinky pictures. Everything's been quite tame - from the women!

Fake tan isn't ideal. You have to be into that whole look to enjoy it - and I hate it.

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.

I think we're all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way - I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.

I was very young when I was using fake tan and I didn't care.

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

Your image of yourself is one of a beast. A benevolent one, but a beast nonetheless. As much as this might pain you, it is also easy and familiar. It allows you to do away with deeper emotions.

I say, "How do I look?" "Like a pail of manure dragged down a bumpy road and dumped into a river of puke," says a familiar voice from behind me.

And if I do live, I don't know if my body is ever going to be right again. I mean, even if I figure out what Ludovico's Ellicit is and get cured, I might look like Freddy Krueger's foreskin forever.

Les psychologues et les stylistes savent de longue date que l'apparence d'une personne modèle sa perception d'elle-même. Il est ensuite facile de modifier son comportement.

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)

The threat of being overwhelmed by difficult social interactions is dealt with by fixing a self-image in advance, by making oneself a fixed object rather than an open person liable to be touched by a social situation.