Beauty Ideals Quotes

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker's daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

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

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty - it's a lofty ambition but it's important to make a start.

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

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.'

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

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.

The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard]… there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape… we need more of that.

There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'