Cultural Standards of Beauty Quotes

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.