“Incorrectly done fillers can cause blindness, tissue necrosis, and even death.”— Angela Lashbrook, onezero.medium.com
“The patriarchy somehow convinced us that visible panty lines were unacceptable, so now I've just grown accustomed to the feeling of a fabric rope against my actual asshole all day.”— Stephen Falck, Allan McLeod, Gretchen Cutler, Aya Cash, imdb.com
“it’s such a strange thing that we care about what we look like. like have you ever just considered that cavemen didn’t have mirrors or cameras or anything to see themselves up close with and they didn’t even care about what they looked like? we literally come from the universe, all of us, and we hav…”— sunbeambabygirl, sunbeambabygirl.tumblr.com
“We are being manipulated every single day by an industry that rakes in billions while we stand crying over our bathroom scales.”— Megan Jayne Crabbe, amazon.com
“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them under the concept of luxury!”— Kanye West, youtube.com
“At some point in recent years, the same advertisers that shoved women into darkened corners of shame for not being pretty enough, not being thin enough, not having light enough skin and straight enough hair re-emerged under a sparkly, vamp-red, feminist banner.”— Bree Rody-Mantha, thefinancialdiet.com
“Makeup is an oppressive tool that seeks to hide us women, to belittle us and force us to compete with one another.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“My self loathing was a result of centuries of European and American colonization on my people.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential;…”— Lindy West, theguardian.com
“The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.”— Lindy West, theguardian.com
“Society’s obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power. When women compete to ‘stay young,’ we collude in our own disempowerment. When we rank other women by age, we reinforce ageism, sexism, lookism and patriarchy. What els…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“One thing we can all agree on, though? Aging is harder for women. We bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth and youth with power — the double-whammy of ageism and sexism. How do we cope? We splurge on anti-aging products. We fudge or lie about our age. We diet, we exercise, we get plump…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“white women get so hurt when non white women talk about european standards of beauty and realize that white women aren’t the epitome of beauty and then they go ‘wow so much for women supporting women’ like why should i support standards that made me feel ugly for the majority of my life? why should…”— medusabraids, medusabraids.tumblr.com
“If tomorrow women in the west woke up and decided they really like their bodies just think how many industries would go out of business - the cosmetic industry, the clothing industry, the diet industry, the gym industry - and then think of all the allied industries that support those industries. So…”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“Imagine if you had never in your life ever seen an image of a woman in a magazine. Imagine how differently you would feel about your body. My assumption is you would feel very different. So think about what has been ripped away from us now this is what surrounds us, this image of a body that none of…”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“Let's be honest, when we put down Cosmopolitan or Vogue or Vanity Fair, how do we feel? Like (do we) feel 'Oh I feel really slim and toned today. I feel really good about myself.'? How do you really feel? Like a fat pig would that be about right? That's crucial because the more women hate themselves…”— Gail Dines, youtube.com