Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

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.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Only God, my dear, ” wrote Yeats blithely, “Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair.” This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines.

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

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.

The first ninety minutes are the most important.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.