Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Putting makeup on will not make people like you. Maybe you should eat makeup so you can try being pretty on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At least you've brought gifts. What's in the basket?" She rummaged through the contents. "A few sweetmeats and lozenges. Packets of raisins.… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . .… — Ricky Gervais 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
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a… — Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote Copy Share Image
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad. — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
