As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

Our 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.

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.