Jo Swinson Quotes

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

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

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

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

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

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.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

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

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.