Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.

I think there is something lovely when a woman looks well.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

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.'

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

Casting directors said that I look like an urban girl with sharp features. Maybe that is true, but we are living at a time where a lot of advanced make-up techniques are available.

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.