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.

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.

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

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.

He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor

That's not a good idea.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.