Sara Pascoe Quotes

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.

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

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

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

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

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.

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

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

Women are really scrutinised for what they wear.

There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.

Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.

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.