Trisha Yearwood Quotes

My body is my best asset.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

In my opinion, a woman's body is not her only asset.

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

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

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

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

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

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'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

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?

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.