Elise Andrew Quotes

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

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

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

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.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.

In this business, certainly it's a lot crazier for women than it is for men, but there's such a thing where there's a lot of judgment on the way you look and on your body.

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, 'Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

A girl has to be super-hot now for me to be even semi-interested.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

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

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

I hate being too pretty.