Stella Young Quotes

When you're a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because - especially when you're in the public eye - you're constantly being judged.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.

Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

I am scared of stepping out of the house, because of what people will think of me. In our society, men and women are looked at differently anyway, and that's even truer if you are an actress.

I feel like a Barbie.

I'm sorry, I just don't want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.