Quotes About Self-image

I catch a glimpse of my face in the mirror. It seems old, with too much makeup. I feel stuck, out of school, working odd jobs, like someone brooding, hat in hand in an anteroom, waiting for the future as if it were some hoop-skirted belle that must gather up its petticoats, float forward, and present itself to me.

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

She was too preoccupied about appearing young, I suppose, to care about anything else, her own part included.

at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter? A small price to pay for an energetic and active old age. She drove in the last stake

Having a negative self-image or a negative body image is like always having a gate-crashing critic watching the events of your life as they unfold.

No puedo soportar que tu, de entre todo el mundo, me vea tan débil y patético.

See my gray hair. I know I look like an old woman. I'm thirty-eight. My hair turned gray overnight.

Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.