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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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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Beauty
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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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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. – Lord Chesterfield

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Beauty

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. – Laurette Taylor

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Beauty

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. – George H. Mead

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Beauty

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full nights sleep. – Angela Kinsey

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Beauty

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You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Interviews

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisands Web site, and it was amazing politically. Shes so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants. – Liz Phair

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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone elses door. Because I dont want the remnants. I dont want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning. – Drew Barrymore

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Morning