Rain Dove Quotes

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

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

If I didn't have to fit in to sample sizes I'd be a size 14, easy. I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

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.

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

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.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

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

We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can't be anybody else. So what's the point of trying?

I really don't think you need to be 40 and have three kids and have a body of an 18-year-old.

I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.

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.

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

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.

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?