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“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.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
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“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
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