L'Wren Scott Quotes

There's a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it's a very odd one.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

Women don't try to use me.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

I don't mind it. My friends think it's kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.

Becoming Miss Universe made me realize that women worldwide face the same challenges daily, such as various forms of violence and crime, physical and emotional abuse, and toxic relationships, among others.

We women should remember that we are much more than just breasts.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

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.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.