Yoko Ono Quotes

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.

It really annoys me when magazines put up these 'superwomen' with the perfect blow-dry, the perfect life - but nothing's perfect. People have a whole bunch of problems and it's how many solutions you can find to those problems as to how happy you are.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

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.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

I'm very sick of talking about my skin.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

I wanted to be Barbie.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.