

“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

“Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
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