Monique Johnson

“Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.”
― Emilyann Girdner, The Labyrinth Wall