"Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter."

-- Cynthia Heimel

#Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.”
“I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.”
“Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.”
“Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.”
“All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.”
“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”
“I must be the oldest living child soprano.”

Source : "The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era". Book by James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers (p. 295), 1972.
“I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.”

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