Shalom Harlow Quotes

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'

Women are always beautiful.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

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.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

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.

Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane.

I wish I had more confidence.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

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.