Zadie Smith Quotes

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I consider myself a little weak.

I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster - what the hell?

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight.

I'm not image-obsessed.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.