Feminism Quote by Anonymous

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced in the…

— Naomi Wolf

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are…

— Christa Wolf

“The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the…

— Naomi Wolf

“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies,…

— Naomi Wolf

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every…

— Margaret Mead

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain…

— Julie Burchill

We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty…

— Jo Swinson

“The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate a world…

— Bryant McGill

“For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not…

— Naomi Wolf

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to…

— Naomi Wolf

There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see,…

— Karla Souza