'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

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Myths Quotes, Society Quotes, Women Quotes

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.