“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel… — Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — 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
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you… — Izabella Scorupco Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't understand nor have any respect for these fake girls who have cosmetic surgery all over the place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great,… — Jerry Hall Copy Share Image
At first, you don't do cosmetic surgery because you're not good enough yet. So you start out doing reconstructive surgery, which is… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
“… What would the cosmetic surgery industry do if women embraced the unchanging beauty within them, instead of obsessing about the ever-changing… — Lisa Lister Copy Share Image
Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
“We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“Revirgination surgery for women is the fastest growing segment within the Indian cosmetic surgery industry. But any culture that decides a woman’s… — Mallika Nawal Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Whether it’s a simple hymenoplasty (which guarantees to spill a little blood on the sheets, so your future husband can conclude he… — Mallika Nawal Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around… — Sarah Miles 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
“When we feel frustrated, our first inclination is to change whatever isn't working for us. We can try to accomplish this by… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have… — 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
![“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/137/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_men-who-read-it-beauty-pornography-don-t_3112440.jpg)
![“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right." That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9af/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_never-enjoins-a-women-s-magazine-mention_2031183.jpg)
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