"Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that."

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Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

Naomi Wolf

#Hurt Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control. So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.”
“There is a progression of understanding vis-Ã -vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .”
“We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.”

Source : Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962
“Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.”

Source : "Manginot HaZman" by I. L. Peretz, 1886.
“Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.”

Source : Katty Kay, Claire Shipman (2014). “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know”, p.15, Harper Collins
“My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”
“I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.”
“Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.”

Source : Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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