Ellen Hopkins Quotes

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

Itʹs not just the dress or the hair. Itʹs you. Youʹre beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.ʺ

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

I'm not a stunning woman.

Not everyone will see your beauty, and not everyone will find you attractive or believe you are worthy of their clothing or publications.

I realized that everyone was only complimenting me for the way I looked. More than my voice, people focused on how pretty I am.