Die Hot with a Vengeance Quotes

“Flaws include anything that indicates you’re a live human in a flesh vessel subject to the erosion of time and biology. It all becomes a bit of a dark comedy once you realize that the origin of error is simply remaining alive.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“Glamorizing pain doesn’t do much to soothe it so much as circumvent the stigma of emotional distress and crystallize it into its own kind of neurotic vanity.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“This kind of toxic femininity stems from the age-old scarcity mentality that one woman’s beauty negates another’s. It’s a misogyny-coded mindset that perpetuates the way we value women by their appearance first and their humanity second”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“It’s important to be careful what we consume when our consumption sustains what we may not support.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“But introducing inclusivity into an unchanged system just serves to distribute the labor and the expectations of that system to a more diverse set of people. It rolls out a dubious path toward attaining beauty ideals with tools and resources for all genders and skin colors, with no mention of the historic reasons they were excluded in the first place.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“Perfume is one of beauty’s most poetic expressions.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“But knowing what I do now, my present self has become quite retrospectively protective of my inner child/past self; she was, after all, the one raw-dogging beauty culture’s messaging without an ounce of critical thinking skills.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“beauty is embedded in the ways we are socialized to value people, so that makes it kind of a big issue.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression