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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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon

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Power and beauty come from a very deep place. – Brooke Burke

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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. – Albrecht Durer

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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. – Marsha Norman

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And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. – James Beattie

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