Anna Ewers Quotes

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.

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.

Because I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

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.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion?

I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I am in an industry that makes women feel bad about themselves, absolutely.

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

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in a bathing suit. It was not something that was wonderful for me. It offered a lot of really great opportunities for me. But ultimately, it's a hard job because it's based solely on what your body looks like, what you look like.