Michelle Beadle Quotes

I enjoy being a girl.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

I am not what a girl dreams of.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

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

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I'll have men, or I'll have women say that I'll never be a woman because I don't menstruate, or because I'm not made up like Kim Kardashian. So in that sense, I use makeup for a little bit of confidence. But for the most part, day-to-day, I wear makeup if it feels good.

Being a woman, I want to look pretty in every phase of my life.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.