Are women beautiful or aren't we?

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.

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.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

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 problem is, we always want to pay the prices we can afford.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Some of you might know me as Meg Lacey, but Lynda Miller is my real name. Of course, I am usually called Lynn and only Lynda by my father when I was in trouble.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.