To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

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.

How can we love the unseen God and hate the visible man?

The gut is the seat of all feeling.

Words of others, helps weave our feathers.

Try to create a wall of inspiration around yourself in order to succeed in life.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.