Beauty Standard Quotes

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

— Karl Lagerfeld

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

— Bria Vinaite

As I've grown older, I've just been able to appreciate more of those beauty standards in Latin America.

— Rachel Zegler

We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.

— A'Lelia Bundles

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

— Dave Barry

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard…

— Tom Ford

I kind of had a hard time growing up because I was such a people pleaser; I was so desperate to be…

— Jenna Ortega

It doesn't matter if you're a size 2 or 22, you can be healthy as long as you're taking care of your…

— Ashley Graham

We have this weird beauty standard where women, like, shouldn't grow: what we think is feminine is often what is also pre-pubescent.

— Petra Collins

“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the…

— Trevor D. Richardson

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love…

— Keala Settle

“Feeling comfortable in my body isn't entirely about beauty standards. It is not entirely about ideals. It's about how I feel in…

— Roxane Gay

“The fact that individuals who have won the beauty-gene lottery are setting universal beauty standards is a bit like using NBA forwards…

— Timothy Caulfield

The plus-size revolution that has been happening lately is incredible but it's also creating this "other" beauty standard in which you have…

— Beth Ditto

“I’m an Exquisite Black Queen! I like, love, and celebrate myself. I don’t fit society’s beauty standards, but I’m beautiful to me.…

— Stephanie Lahart

As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something…

— Lena Dunham

I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers…

— Jami Floyd

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had…

— Beth Ditto

“[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing…

— Tyra Banks

I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that…

— Lindy West

Well wtriten. I am a little disappointed seeing as though the two women pictured are already getting work. I could almost understand…

— Maria

“Widen your vision of what beauty is. Realize and keep close the fact that a beauty standard has been created by the…

— Lindsey Gates Markel

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the…

— Janet Mock

I can do both of the things I love, which is raise awareness for TSS and work as a model to help…

— Lauren Wasser

In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty…

— Philomena Kwao

It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants…

— Tom Ford

I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or…

— Denise Bidot

When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We…

— Sasha Velour

Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness…

— Park Bo-young

“Good night, chubby baby I can't rock you no more I'm sorry, chubby baby But my arms are getting sore Sleep tight,…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was…

— Daniel Kaluuya

The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not?…

— Lisa Hanawalt

We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and…

— Philomena Kwao