Ellen Page Quotes

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.