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“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn’t care about women’s appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will “be good,” but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“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.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
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