If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.

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.

I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

I like my customer to be fierce.

If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.