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
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
“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable:… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
“Possibilities for women have become so open-ended that they threaten to destabilize the institutions on which a male-dominated culture has depended, and… — Anonymous 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 beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — 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
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
I think we can all agree there's a kind of beauty myth that as soon as a woman cuts her hair she's… — Whitney Port 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
“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
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
