My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition