In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

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

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

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

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.