Karyn Kusama Quotes

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

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

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.

I think society is so hard on young women. Growing up, the images that I saw, the standards that I had to live up to in terms of how I looked and how I fit into my social groups - it was a lot of pressure.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.