Danica McKellar Quotes

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

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.

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

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

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

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.

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

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.

Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

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

All girls want to be sexy.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

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?'

A way a woman walks and talks and moves and behaves is completely connected to how she looks.

Our society is constantly creating this framework for girls to feel that their only worth is their appearance, and it's damaging on so many levels to so many people.

There were times when I tried to hide my muscles. When you're a young girl, you hear, 'You're really strong,' or, 'You have really toned arms.' In my head, it wasn't something that should be said about a girl. It should be more, 'You're pretty.'

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

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.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.