Appearance Quote by Pam Grier

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look…

— Bette Midler

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

— Jenna Ortega

Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making…

— Mickalene Thomas

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen…

— Rachel McAdams

Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in…

— Pam Grier

I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was…

— Zozibini Tunzi

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so…

— Cameron Russell

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

— Andrej Pejic

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

— Lucy Grealy

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got…

— Lauren Graham

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes…

— Sonia Rykiel

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

— Dani Shapiro