Maddie
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“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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