Bea Arthur Quotes

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous premier on youth, which is so, so debilitating and upsetting to so many women. I don't know why they're so dopey. Seriously. I don't see any problem with that and if you do, you should celebrate it. Don't chop your face up.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

I'm not that good looking.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

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.

When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I've got a grown-up baby nose; it's not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in 'Amelie' and thought, 'She's got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.'

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.

I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.