Best quotes by Janet Mock on Beauty

Checkout quotes by Janet Mock on Beauty

  • I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.
    - Janet Mock
  • We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.
    - Janet Mock
  • Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.
    - Janet Mock
  • We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.
    - Janet Mock
  • I don't chase beauty trends.
    - Janet Mock
  • Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.
    - Janet Mock