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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.
