Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Sharon StoneRead
I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.
Interpretation
Aging gracefully involves embracing imperfections rather than seeking to change one's appearance.
Sharon Stone's quote reflects a positive attitude towards aging and the natural changes that come with it. Rather than adhering to societal pressures to alter one's appearance through cosmetic procedures, she champions the beauty of imperfections, suggesting that they add to one's sensuality and authenticity, thereby redefining the standards of attractiveness and self-acceptance in the process of aging.
In practice
In a discussion about beauty standards at a women's conference.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!
There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'
I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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