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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.
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The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
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Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
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It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
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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.
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Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
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As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
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Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
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We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
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At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
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Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
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The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.
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Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
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Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
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Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.
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The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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November 12, 1962
(age 61)
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