41 Quotes About Beauty-standards

Remember that our default ways of seeing are not natural or necessary. Any statue in any gallery testifies that we did not always think lean teens were the peak of beauty. Seeing is tangled up with belief; don’t let either be handed to you by juvenile men in boardrooms who want to take your money.

Lines can be the etchings of your biggest smiles, the frowns you learned from, the proof that you change and grow.

Focus on the parts of yourself that will not diminish with time – humour and wisdom are not like collagen. You will make more of them as you age.

In simple words, ‘Beauty’ is what gladdens the heart. Neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body – If the sight of you generates happiness, you’re beautiful.

you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.your skin is not burden.there is no mark against you.your being is a holy beauty.you.are a holy beauty.— ether

Our children are too vast to fit themselves inside these rigid, mass-produced bottles. But they'll lose themselves trying.

We are at that age where men get sexier, and women get Botox.

God created you. If you are up to another miracle, try with the plastic surgeon.

He called you beautiful, for a black girl and you kissed him. It would not be the last time someone would pay you a provisional compliment, nor the last time you accept it. Back then, you had not yet realized, that those who view your beauty conditionally, undoubtedly felt the same towards your humanity.