Hilary Knight Quotes

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.

There were times when I tried to hide my muscles. When you're a young girl, you hear, 'You're really strong,' or, 'You have really toned arms.' In my head, it wasn't something that should be said about a girl. It should be more, 'You're pretty.'

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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.

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

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

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

I'd like to be curvier.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball and did ballet as well so was very athletic. I wasn't curvaceous; I had muscles on my arms and shoulders. Often I felt like hiding them rather than showing them off, as I felt they were masculine.