The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

It is important to distinguish between the power of the internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

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

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.