"A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience."
- Naomi Wolf
"Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to..."
- Jessica Valenti
"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it."
"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."
- Anne Lamott
"No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in socie..."
"A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. T..."
"Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply hav..."
"Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful."
- Germaine Greer
"Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The..."
"Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good."