Bibi Bourelly Quotes

All this is expected from girls only - wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don't always have to do their hair and makeup.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

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

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

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

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.

People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.