Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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

It's one thing to evaluate a woman's work. it's another thing to say, 'Your hair was this; your makeup was that.'

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

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.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

All the news articles focus on how I look. They certainly don't do that to men.

I was looking at the Trump hits on me, I have to confess, all of which made me laugh. And I thought, you know, he never goes after guys' looks. He only does the looks thing with women. And then I found this one. "Lawrence will soon be off TV, bad ratings, he has a face made for radio." So, he has gone after, at least one guy, on looks.

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.

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.

Someone - a man - advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

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

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

If a woman rising in power is too tough or aggressive, she's attacked for it. If she's attractive, she's accused of having used that to her advantage. And even if a woman is beyond qualified for a role, there will always be those who raise doubts about if she's really qualified.

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.