Susie Orbach Quotes

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.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

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

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

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.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.

Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

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.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

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

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