Gloria Steinem Quotes

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

If you deserve it, go get it.

If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.

I knew that I'd be able to climb the mountain, but in such a short period? I didn't think so. I mean, 'SmackDown Live' is the land of opportunity, and I'm a living proof of that.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

There are girls who look stunning on screen. I don't think I look stunning, but I am working hard.

Just because I'm young doesn't mean I didn't work hard to get to where I am.

I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?

I've never thought of myself as a good-looking guy, necessarily.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

I always have that in the back of my head - the idea that I've been spoon-fed because of where I'm from. I think that's one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven't been handed anything.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.

I realized that everyone was only complimenting me for the way I looked. More than my voice, people focused on how pretty I am.

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.

Is television a lookist industry? Of course it is.

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.