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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 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
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
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