'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Quote by Naomi Wolf

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Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined...

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one...

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our eauty so that we will remain...

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our eauty so that we will remain...

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from...

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...

So few grown women like their lives

So few grown women like their lives

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive...

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive...

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered...

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered...

Silence is a girl's loudest cry. If she is speechless, her heart is too tired...

Silence is a girl's loudest cry. If she is speechless, her heart is too tired...

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather...

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather...

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's...

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's...

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they...

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they...

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Ladies: Showing a great amount of skin when you dress up isn't the way to...

Ladies: Showing a great amount of skin when you dress up isn't the way to...

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between...

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between...

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone...

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone...