Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

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 have a remarkable memory I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality.

The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.

You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.