Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Quotes

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

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

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can't be anybody else. So what's the point of trying?

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

If I have to change for a character, I need really logical reasons to look a certain way. Otherwise, I have finally cracked the code in being comfortable in my own skin regardless of what's fed to you of how you must look.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I am not what a girl dreams of.

I think society is so hard on young women. Growing up, the images that I saw, the standards that I had to live up to in terms of how I looked and how I fit into my social groups - it was a lot of pressure.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

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.

As young women, we all feel a pressure to look a certain way, and sometimes it is just too much to handle. But, there are good and bad ways to deal with this pressure. A terrible way to handle this pressure is to complain about all of our flaws and expect other girls to join in.