Beauty Myth Quotes
- Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm… — Naomi Wolf
- As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as… — Naomi Wolf
- Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this… — Naomi Wolf
- The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only… — Naomi Wolf
- If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser
- The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be… — Nancy Etcoff
- No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… — Naomi Wolf
- As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf
- The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf
- Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf