The Beauty Myth Quotes

#1. The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Naomi Wolf

#2. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Naomi Wolf

#3. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Naomi Wolf

#4. The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.

Naomi Wolf

#5. No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Naomi Wolf

#6. There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today's power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

Naomi Wolf

#7. Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Naomi Wolf

#8. 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.

Naomi Wolf

#9. The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Konrad Lorenz

#10. the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction.

Naomi Wolf

#11. I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Oscar Wilde

#12. Customers do not want to "make friends"; they want to see results and substantive relationships provide those.

Paul Cherry

#13. I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Harrison Ford

#14. Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

Frans De Waal

#15. I dont know how to say this but ... I LOVE YOU

Mickie James

#16. [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job ... into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Milan Kundera

#17. 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.

Naomi Wolf

#18. You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand.
She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're ... "
Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.

Milan Kundera

#20. We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

Naomi Wolf

#21. Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

April Glaspie

#22. Your imagination has an impressive reach."
"Or my boredom an impressive scope.

Julie Anne Long

#23. I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.

Kelley Armstrong

#24. He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Alexandra Kleeman

#25. Life is a dream; life is a journey. Life is a miracle, a search for destiny.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

Joseph Campbell

#27. I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.

Turcois Ominek

#28. If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

Elizabeth Lesser

#29. Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

#30. People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.

Nenia Campbell

#31. The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Nancy Etcoff

#32. The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.

Lara Biyuts

#33. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

Clarence Thomas