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

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

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.

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

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.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

My dad and uncles were among the 125, 000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

AARP is a large and powerful organization, similar to the Mafia but more concerned about dietary fiber.

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.