a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.