Art Quote by Camille Paglia

“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

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

— Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but…

— Naomi Wolf

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

— Sergio Leone

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this…

— Judy Chicago

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by…

— Elisabeth Moss

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

“What has been valued in the West in women has too often been defined only in relation to the masculine: the good, nurturant mother…

— Sylvia Perera

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

— David Henry Hwang

As a culture, the West has found itself in a strange, not battle of the genders, but battle in one's own gender. There's been…

— Jude Law

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

— Jessica Valenti