“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.” IfsCertainWishAnswersAttentionFocusHairAmountFeministAppearanceDistractionEyebrowsSisterhood Author:Louise Mensch
“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.” LifeTryingProblemScienceJoyNatureAnswersHalfSeaSkyFlowerHairMountainBirdMarkGrassFeathersJoy Of LifePetalsMammalsInterrogationSolved ProblemsSea And Sky Author:J. Arthur Thomson
“My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?” DoneSimpleAnswersHairMy FavoriteAll TimeGet It Done Author:Margaret Atwood
“The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than a whispered 'What are you wearing?' Especially when you can make up the answer. On the phone your hair always looks great, your legs are always shaved, your worst pair of underwear becomes a silk negligee.” LooksMaySometimesSexVoiceAnswersWorstHairPhonesLegsPairsToysTelephonesEroticUnderwearSilkTantalizing Author:Meghan Daum
“Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don't. If metal doesn't give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That's okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we're doing just fine without you.” IfsKnowsGivingFeelsYearsMightFormAnswersJudgingHairFineOkayHeavyNecksOverwhelmingMetalsWithout YouHeavy Metal Author:Sam Dunn
“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.” SelfDoneBlackAnswersFocusChildhoodHairAspectCriticalBlack WomenDefiningGet It Done Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.” KnowsLooksSaidMovingAnswersHairWindowPetLaughedCigaretteLedgesYour PrettyPlaits Author:Angela Carter