Quote by Naomi Wolf
Beauty is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any econo

Beauty is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. – Naomi Wolf

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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf

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Society
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No matter what a womans appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. – Naomi Wolf

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Beauty
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Most urgently, womens 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. – Naomi Wolf

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Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty and folly are generally companions. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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Its how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that? – Hilary Swank

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