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“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition”

Quote by Naomi Wolf

Book:The Beauty Myth

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The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf's influential work delves into the cultural and historical roots of the beauty myth, examining its impact on women's lives and societal norms. more

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Naomi Wolf is a renowned author, cultural critic, and public intellectual. Born on November 12, 1962, she is known for her profound insights into feminism, politics, and social issues. Her work spans a variety of fields, including gender, power, cultural identity, and global politics. more

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“Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.”

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Book:The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“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.”

Ifs Turns Names Self Esteem Concerned Aspect Sells Myth Esteem Iron Discourse Maidens Public Discourse Women's Health Iron Maiden Beauty Myth Spokespeople

Author:Naomi Wolf

“The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.”

Grows Self Esteem Higher Fame Stronger Profession Esteem Rising Display Prestige Emulate

Book:The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests”

People Asks Self Esteem Esteem

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“Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”

Should Persons Style Self Esteem Produce Patient Esteem Gray Portraits Couches Therapists

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“How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?”

Ifs Love You Self Esteem Esteem Love Yourself

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“What editors are obliged to appear to say that”

Self Esteem Esteem Editors Obliged Advertisers

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”

Self Esteem Catholic Esteem

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“Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.”

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined