Quotes about Plastic surgery

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Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult m — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not lik — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purp — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bod — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. P — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's he — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. Th — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlock — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
My phone started to vibrate and I flipped it open. Yes, I'm the only person that doesn't have an iPhone.The phone talked — Dan Ahearn, Shoot the Moon
When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it a — Andi Zeisler, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy gi — Julia Scheeres
Health makes good propaganda. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York
Veeva squirmed up and down the length of me, vibrating like a coin operated motel bed. When she stopped kissing my mouth — Dan Ahearn, Shoot the Moon
It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind — Lisi Harrison, Monster High