“I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.” WantBodyFacesChoicesAttitudeEconomicJudgmentDeservePressureAppearanceArguingIdeology Author:Naomi Wolf
“Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.” ImportantLife IsSocialAttitudeTalentAppearanceSocial Status Author:Stephanie Dowrick
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.” WayLooksWholeBlackWhiteDealsAttitudeWeekFoolAppearance Book:Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery Source: Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!” PeopleIfsHas BeensStillsDifferentAmericaGirlThreeAttitudeClearOur LivesCuttingBabyCatholicAppearanceImpressionAfrican AmericanInternalsCapabilityThree TimesClassification Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.” WayStatesReasonNextAbilityResultsAttitudeObjectsJudgmentAppearanceSuspenseSkepticismMental AttitudeOwingScepticism Book:Sextus Empiricus Source: Sextus Empiricus
“A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.” WorldSeemsGivenAttitudeFashionClothesRefuseAppearanceRealizationHopelessIndifferentBeatenPatheticGiven UpInferiorityPlaces In The WorldAdmissionPerverseness Author:Hortense Odlum