To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
