Virginia Postrel Quotes

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.

It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.

I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.

The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

In the movies, there's this idea that you're only desirable if you're physically dazzling.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

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.

My dad, bless his heart, always told me I was beautiful, so I was never self-conscious in that way. But when you look at the images on TV, you think you need to look like that in order to be sexy.

As a woman you have to tick all these boxes to be able to be on TV. I know I look a certain way and that's partly why I'm on TV. If I were really ugly and fat, I don't think I'd have had the same chance.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

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