"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour……" — Naomi Wolf
"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance."
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96 Quotes by Naomi Wolf
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- The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female…
- Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing…
- When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is…
- At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made…
- Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women…
- As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the…
- Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it…
- The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held…
- What editors are obliged to appear to say that
- Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
- The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one…
- What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from…