Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

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.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.