Cosmetic surgery Quote by Naomi Wolf

“… What would the cosmetic surgery industry do if women embraced the unchanging beauty within them, instead of obsessing about the ever-changing patriarchal representations…

— Lisa Lister

Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to…

— Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in…

— Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

— Naomi Wolf

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend…

— Naomi Wolf

“When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain…

— Andi Zeisler

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing…

— Monica Bellucci

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because…

— Debra Winger

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

— Alan Watts

I believe that every woman is entitled to fight to preserve her youth. Plastic surgery is like the uniform of a generation. And it's…

— Salma Hayek

“The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic result, and cosmetic results, as we…

— Stephen Fry

“The "fashion-beauty complex'," representing the corporate interests involved in the fashion and beauty industries, has, Bartky argues, taken over from the family and church…

— Sheila Jeffreys