"We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women"

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Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House

Naomi Wolf

#Fashion Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.”
“Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chefâ€™s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.”
“I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.”
“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.”
“Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.”
“The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.”
“I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.”
“I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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