The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

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.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude