'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and … - Naomi Wolf

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My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

Naomi Wolf

'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.

Age, Gold, Modern, Self Esteem, System

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Become goddesses of disobedience.

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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

Battle, Fantasy, Human, Ideas, Romans, Skulls

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Become, Body Image, Relinquishing, Sexuality, Thin, Women

The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful. " If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

Beautiful, Believe, Bodies, Meant, Men

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

Days, Entrepreneur, Groom, Magazines, Scenario, Tabloids

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We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

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Jeremy Scahill

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

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Audre Lorde

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

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Walter E. Williams

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.

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