Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

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.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.