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

Quote by Naomi Wolf

Topics: Beauty Quotes, Cosmetics Quotes

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...

'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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...