Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

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.

From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme ‘smile’.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius)