Century Quote by Barbara Tuchman

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

— Barbara Tuchman

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

— Antony Beevor

“for the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both…

— Nina Power

“In a somewhat different form, noblewomen of 14th- to 16th-century Europe and England shaved or plucked their frontal scalp in order to create a…

— Kurt Stenn

Never shave your eyebrows and paint them back exactly were they where, thats absurd in nomarl terms, please women just stop

— Anonymous

“The true condition of a people may be known by the regard held for woman. The beauty of their women was extolled in song.…

— J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

I never lived in the era when thin eyebrows were in so I never did that.

— Jordyn Woods

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel…

— Laura Kipnis

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Do you shave them to conform to what society—and by society I mainly mean the male gaze—expects of you or just simply for your…

— Harper Bliss

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

— Isabelle Fuhrman