America Ferrera Quotes

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

I think society is so hard on young women. Growing up, the images that I saw, the standards that I had to live up to in terms of how I looked and how I fit into my social groups - it was a lot of pressure.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

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

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.