Quotes About Self-perception

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

Women are too critical of themselves

Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

I hate when people call me a star, because I don't consider myself to be a star.

I'd love to be a movie star. That'd be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like sand in an hourglass.

I don't take myself seriously, I don't think of myself as a star.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.