Adornment Quote by Erica Jong

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?... All the…

— Anonymous

I think a lot of times for women, especially in this industry, we're forced to do things for beauty that aren't good for what…

— KiKi Layne

When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes…

— Oscar de la Renta

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

— Caitlin Moran

“Passion isn't the point. The glossy, overheated thumping of sexuality in our culture is less about connection than consumption. Hotness has become our cultural…

— Ariel Levy

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe…

— Naomi Wolf

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

— Natalie Dormer

I think the fact that all women get branded as the same, desperate for love, desperate for children, is just a really unmodern attitude.

— Dawn O'Porter

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

— Annie Lennox

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

My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless…

— Peter Lindbergh

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