Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.

Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't look younger or better, they just look like they've had plastic surgery.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!

There's not a part of me, apart from the soles of my feet, which has not had work done.

I've had a lot of plastic surgery, and I'm completely honest about it.

I would love a nose job, but I'm scared. I would do just about anything to maintain myself.

Just about everyone is quick to judge plastic surgery, especially on a man. We've all seen people who end up looking a little scary.

Any surgery done to improve one's looks is not really something someone wants to talk about.

I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.