The Beauty Myth (1991) (edit title/settings)

Julia K edited the memorable quotes of The Beauty Myth Sunday, June 13, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “As long as the definiton of "beauty" comes from outside women, we will continue to be manipulated by it.”Naomi Wolf
• Added a quotation: “Who says we need a hierachy? Where I see beauty may not be where you do. Some people may look more desirable to me than they do to you. So what? My perception has no authority over yours.”Naomi Wolf

Julia K edited the memorable quotes of The Beauty Myth Sunday, June 13, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”Naomi Wolf
• Added a quotation: “So even those women who take men's beauty pornography to heart and try, and even succeed, in looking like it, are doomed to be dissapointed. Men who read it don't do so because they want women that look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional women shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life.”Naomi Wolf

Julia K edited the memorable quotes of The Beauty Myth Sunday, June 13, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Though women have networks of intimate friends, the myth, and women's conditions until recently, have kept women from learning to do something that makes all male social changes possible: How to indentify with unknown other women in a way that was not personal.”Naomi Wolf
• Added a quotation: “Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will "be good", but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.”Naomi Wolf

Julia K edited the memorable quotes of The Beauty Myth Sunday, June 13, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Somehow, somewhere, someone must have figured out that they will buy more things if they are kept in the self-hating, ever-failing, hungry, and sexualy insecure state of being aspiring "beauties"”Naomi Wolf

Julia K edited the memorable quotes of The Beauty Myth Sunday, June 13, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “The message was finalized: The most emblematic working women in the West could be visible if they were "beautiful", even if they were bad at their work; they could be good at their work and "beautiful" and therefore visible, but get no credit for merit; or they could be good and "unbeautiful" and therefore invisible, so their merit did them no good.”Naomi Wolf