Social Scrutiny Quotes

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

Where I come from, dressing is a culture. When I go back home, I cannot dress bad. I cannot miss, or people will be like, 'What's going on with you, Serge? Did you lose your mind, or what?' That's the culture.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

What is the obsession with not repeating clothes or making appearances that have been similar to the one's we've made in the past? Why is the fashion police so intense? What do they expect from us? What kind of pressure is this?

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Keep a strict Inspection upon their Conversations; Examine, How they spend their Time; Examine, What Company they keep?

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

A man could come in the room with his hair not cut, not done, pants around his ankles and people still gon' be like, 'Oh, that's his style. It's cool.' Being a woman, you have to be on your P's and Q's at all times, because not only do you have to keep up your appearance for men, but other women judge you so hard.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.