#tee

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#body-image #self-esteem-or-lack-thereof #beauty

Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?" It would be past the power of magic, sir;" and, in thought, I added,"a loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather, your sternness has a power beyond beauty." Mr. Rochester had sometimes read my unspoken thoughts with an acumen to me incomprehensible: in the presnt instance he took no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but he smiled at me with a certain smile he had of his own, and which he used but on rare occasions. He seemed to think too good for common purpose: it was the real sunshine of feeling-he shed it over me now. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#repartee #beauty

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#american #american history #before #come #committee

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. ↗

— Judi Dench

#difficulty #esteem #expected #more #sort

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#find #i #icons #idea #incredibly

I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#fixed #gotten #hair #i #never

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#am #another #books #busy #currently

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#anything #basically #because #being #being a girl

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#eighteen #i #ironing #teen years #years