Beauty Quote by Naomi Wolf

“I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.”

— Nicole Williams

“I grew up accepting the inevitability that once you became a woman, you were always on a diet. Being a woman equaled loss.”

— Cathy Alter

“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.”

— Naomi Wolf

“No matter how many things women suffer, nothing can take away their appetite for trouble.”

— Pausanias

“Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.”

— David Kirby

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”

— Roxane Gay

“But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them…

— Laura Shapiro

“You know a girl has turned into a woman when she concentrates less on grabbing food and more on making “others” eat.”

— Sneha Mehta

“Being too thin isn't particularly desirable here. Women eat.”

— Helen Russell

“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a…

— Gloria Steinem

“Let's be honest about the "war on obesity." It's a war on people with a particular body type, funded by diet companies.”

— Golda Poretsky

“if one doesn’t have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to…

— Anonymous