41 Quotes About Beauty-standards

InvisibleShe scanned through the magazinefor girls who looked like herwith deeper hues,flat nose, and thick hair.The day she turned fifteenshe scrubbed herself with bleach while screaming for God,whispering over and over again"the darker the skin,the deeper the struggle"releasing a sighthat made her soul shake.

Gravity holds the universe together. Beauty makes it float around.

Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

I think you should leave [the scar]. [...] It's not as bad as you think. It will look better once it is healed. And besides, you already have a classical beauty. This gives you a romantic beauty as well.

Lift the breasts high, but not so high that they tower over the men. They do not like it if a woman is taller than them. So shrink.Be young. Never ever grow old.Don't live, don't breed without permission, but always give pleasure.

Nous vivons dans une société sexiste qui fait de l'apparence physique des femmes une question centrale et où la domination plastique s'exerce particulièrement lourdement. Car nous le constatons au quotidien, la beauté physique est extrêmement valorisée dans l'identité féminine. Une femme, ça doit être beau et faire attention à soi, sinon ça ne sert à rien.

The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.

Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us arrive at the café looking as similar as possible to the market’s ideal of beauty.