Felicity Kendal Quotes

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

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

I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

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.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face.

I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.