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“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
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“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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