“Consider these picks the skincare equivalent to your morning cup of coffee.”— HARPER'S BAZAAR STAFF, harpersbazaar.com
“A world without beauty is not a world I want to live in.”— Mike White, Quentin, Tom Hollander, imdb.com
“If we're worried about wasting water, maybe take that up with large corporations rather than regular people who just, in the middle of a once-in-a-generation event, want to feel clean.”— Jihan Forbes , allure.com
“I let people smoke in my apartment, so the secret there is candles. I love these obscenely expensive ones by Cire Trudon that have a bergamot, mint, tobacco thing going on. But I mix the high and low. You can mix in the cheap ones from Walgreens as long as the scents don’t clash.”— Rachel Rabbit White, ssense.com
“It feels untenable to present oneself as someone who advocates for “body positivity” or fights oppressive beauty norms when you uphold—and profit from—the same standards you critique.”— Lexi McMenamin, bitchmedia.org
“Beauty is within. Beauty is belief and confidence in yourself. It takes time and it takes practice.”— Hayley Kiyoko, marieclaire.com
“The situation has elicited communal cringes and sympathy for Ms. Brown, who has become known as the Gorilla Glue Girl, as days have passed and various remedies failed to help.”— Marie Fazio, nytimes.com
“What is beautiful about her body does not belong to her, but to god. But what is ugly is hers alone, proof of her sin, worthy of any abuse.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“I found active beauty in movement, in tradition, and in community—places where I could be seen as a peer, not looked at and judged.”— Natasha Ramoutar, thewalrus.ca
“You're always the most beautiful woman in the room.”— Phyllis Nagy, Harge Aird, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com
“Why do women care so much what the magazines say and show? They care because, though magazines are trivialized, they represent something very important: women's mass culture”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Low female self-esteem may have a sexual value to some individual men, but it has a financial value to all of society.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“To be credible about being harassed, in any case, a woman must look harassable, which destroys her credibility.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The working woman was told she had to think about 'beauty' in a way that undermined, step for step, the way she had begun to think as a result of the successes of the women's movement. This last vital lie applied to individual women's lives the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“What it needed was a replacement shackle, a new material burden that would drain surplus energy and lower confidence, an ideology that would produce the women workers it needs, but only in the mold in which it wants them.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Aging in women is "unbeautiful" since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be newly broken: Older women fear young ones, young women fear old, and the beauty myth truncates for all the female life span.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com