Chelsea Hobbs Quotes

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

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.

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.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

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

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

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

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'