Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?