Rain Dove Quotes

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.

I have never met an ugly woman.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

Women's bodies are meant to store fat so that we can do amazing things like have babies or rock a tight pair of jeans.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

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 definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.