Standards Of Beauty Quotes

• There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  The New York Times Magazine, October 9, 1960.

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• The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

  Shamcey Supsup

  Standards, Definite

  FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 10, 2011

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• Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

  Martha Beck

  Looks, Arbitrary, Body

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• Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Anorexia, Healthy

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Practice, Understanding

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• It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness.

  Jessica Ortner

  Hate, Stress, Loss

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Beautiful, Keys, Light

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Standards, Ultimate

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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Crush, Good Life, Hate

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters.

  Gordon Korman

  Country, Art, Character

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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• My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

  Richard Avedon

  Reading, Photographer, Clue

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• As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Lying, Men

  "Empowerment Of Women Speech" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.yasminmogahed.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

  Rose Byrne

  Looks, Want, Ridiculous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society's standard of beauty.

  Tee Corinne

  Beautiful, Men, Risk

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• The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Expression, Games

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• My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

  Richard Avedon

  Reading, Ideas, Excellence

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• Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Inspiration, Biblical

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