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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-m — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting ch — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-fi — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would — Wilfred Trotter
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
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every — Henri Matisse