She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.
Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
Norma Desmond: They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!
Norma Desmond: My astrologist has read my horoscope, he's read DeMille's horoscope. Joe Gillis: Has he read the script?
Norma Desmond: [Joe wants to move out from Norma's house] No one ever leaves a star...
Norma Desmond: You there! Why are you so late? Why have you kept me waiting so long?
