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.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Only God, my dear, ” wrote Yeats blithely, “Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair.” This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines.

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

we know little of the things for which we pray

In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

O woman shapely as a swan.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.