Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Quotes

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.

Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.

I approach beauty the same way I approach clothing - I think people should do whatever to themselves to make them feel more comfortable in their skin.

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

Every girl likes feeling hot and sexy and beautiful and likes hearing it.

My body is my best asset.

It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.

I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do.

It's OK to want to look and feel your best. It's OK to work at being attractive, whatever that means to you. And it's also OK to not expect to be defined by that. It's OK to be powerful in every way: to be big, to take up space. To breathe and thrive.

It's beautiful when someone can carry her own hair and body and curves and bumps.

My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself.