Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

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

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

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

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

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

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

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

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

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

Speed of love is measured in blushes per hour.

Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives.

Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.