- A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
- A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
- A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
- She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
- The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.
- To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren’t is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.
- What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
- My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
- Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
- We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
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