Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

It's not all about having the perfect body, perfect hair, perfect smile.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

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

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

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?

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

Beautiful has never been my goal.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

The most important thing that I've learnt is that the perfect body doesn't exist.

'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 think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there's a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone's body type.

I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.