Janet Mock Quotes

We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.

I think culturally, even if you just talk about it in context, the standard of beauty has not included women of color. Period. Not just black women. If you are not a certain thing, there has not been space for you.

There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.

It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition.

Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

The majority of women in America look like me.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.

I'm 5'3'', and not often you get to see that in a magazine. I think that what is so cool about 'Sports Illustrated' is it's all different body shapes, all difference sizes. You have actresses, sports figures, musicians, so it's all about skin deep beauty sort of radiating to the outside, and that's what's so special.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

Casting plus size girls needs to be genuine.

It has to be something people prioritize - it should be the number-one priority: representing all types of beauty, all types of shapes and sizes.

My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I shopped at thrift stores. And I'm petite - I never looked shapely. I remember thinking, 'Will I ever have that stereotypical round, full butt that people think most black women have? I had to find another way to feel good about myself.