Maria Bamford Quotes

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

The majority of women in America look like me.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

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

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

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

In our society, women are valued for their sexual attraction. I'd like to get away from the sex symbol idea of what beauty is. Actually, that's probably the farthest thing from beauty, because it's makeup and hair, it's pouty lips - it's not real.