Martha Beck Quotes

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

It's so easy to be pretty and perfect.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

I think it frustrates me that so many people have bought into the idea of what we should look like instead of actually giving a crap about everyone around you.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

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

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.

It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.