…don’t be self-conscious – other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear …

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.

In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

You looked strange climbing in the tree like that.”Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. “I didn’t do it to look nice,” she said.”But you...