Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

I think that our culture is doing something to women - let's say women in their late 30s and 40s and probably even 50s, - where they really are expected to keep this insane level of fitness and youth. I find that just a real waste of women's lives. I really do think that.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

If you try to live as well as you can, then hopefully your face will reflect that. But it's unfair that we put so much pressure on women to look good and then give them so much stick when they go under the knife to achieve this.

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

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

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren't real.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

I'm sorry, I just don't want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

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.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.