Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

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

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

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

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.