Gloria Steinem Quotes

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

No, I don't want them to remove my scar. Scars are cool.

I definitely feel that if somebody is struggling with themselves and how they look, they need to really channel the positivity within.

Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.

I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.