Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
Naomi WolfTo live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.
Naomi WolfAs women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Naomi WolfOur society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
Naomi Wolf