Angela Carter Quotes

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

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.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

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

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.

In your 20s and 30s, everything is possible. But then, sooner than you think, men walk past you in the street and don't look twice at you unless you're wearing a fabulous outfit.

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

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

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

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

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 wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.