Koren Zailckas Quotes

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

I'm trying to change how women think about themselves.

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

I'm not the beautiful one.

I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.