Quotes About Self-perception

And yet and yet! That strained look on her face! A gnawing sorrow is there all the time. Her very soul is in her eyes and she would give worlds to be in the privacy of her own familiar chamber where, giving way to tears, she could have a good cry and relieve her pentup feelings. Though not too much because she knew how to cry nicely before the mirror. You are lovely, Gerty, it said.

We're as old as we feel

Why she got to be bowlegged?" "I do got standards.

Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-- unless, of course, I address myself as an other.

I may have been dressed as a falcon, but I'll tell you what. I felt like the biggest

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Here's the thing: I'm not in shape.

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.