Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes a….

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long..

'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 las….

Become goddesses of disobedience..

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that….

Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically,….

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

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision..

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AN….

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

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of wo….

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed cente….

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allow….

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience..

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking..

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are pun….

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room..

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so..

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria..

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women..

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem..