Accomplishment Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th…

— Caitlin Moran

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

— Alexander McQueen

It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for…

— Rosario Dawson

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry…

— Robert Adam

I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was like, 'I…

— Daniel Kaluuya

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

— Ann Voskamp

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those…

— Lebo Grand

“She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle…

— Angela Carter

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,

— Charles James