When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

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.

Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Autumn's the mellow time.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.