Face Quotes

“For me, it felt like a ploy to somehow shut me down, to get me to hide, to be quiet, to erase myself, all at the exact moment in my life when I had gained the most intelligence, the most wisdom, and the most confidence.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin

“If you cannot change anything around you, if you know you can't change anything around you, you turn to that last card, the one you are "in control of," the option to change yourself. And if you can't convince yourself that all the good events are hinged on changes you make to your look, well then, you've got a card of unknown value, the last one, there in the river, that you can turn over again and again and again. There is no end to the number of changes you can perpetrate against yourself. No end to the number of times you can turn that glorious card.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin

“...every dissatisfaction we have with ourselves is an opportunity to like ourselves more.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin

“people will accept what you tell them to accept. You tell them they have a flaw so you can sell them your remedy, the remedy they already didn’t need.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin

“the idea that half the population was perhaps spending the entire second half of their lives ashamed and apologetic that their faces had aged naturally. For me, it felt like a ploy to somehow shut me down, to get me to hide, to be quiet, to erase myself, all at the exact moment in my life when I had gained the most intelligence, the most wisdom, and the most confidence.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin

“perpetrate against yourself.”
― Justine Bateman, Face: One Square Foot of Skin