A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.
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.
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
