Straight Hair Quotes

• Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.

  Rita Rudner

  Hair, People, Want

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.

  Jenny Eclair

  Hair, Curls, Want

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• I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Careers, Hair, Perfect

  "Excerpt: 'Stars of David : Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish' by Abigail Pogrebin", abcnews.go.com. December 26, 2005.

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• My hair is wild and free, but I've always been told that [straight hair] is more polished, and a more polished version of yourself is a better version of yourself. That it's more professional.

  Erin Wasson

  Hair, Wild And Free, Polished

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Hair, Matter

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• Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.

  Daniel Tosh

  Curly Hair, Balls, Want

  Song: Two, Album: Happy Thoughts, 2011

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• black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

  Gloria Naylor

  Beautiful, Hair, Black

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.66, Penguin

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• I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Country, Insecure, Curly Hair

  "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.

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• Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

  Susie Orbach

  Hair, Ubiquity, Faces

  "Body uniformity? Don't do it, guys" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, White, Light

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• When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

  Emmy Rossum

  School, Dark, Curly Hair

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2007.

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