The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. — Naomi Wolf
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. — Naomi Wolf
Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible. — Marianne Williamson
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. — Camille Anna Paglia
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. — Yukio Mishima
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. — Matthew Fox
There is a role and function for beauty in our time. — Tadao Ando
Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury. — Kanye West
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. — Naomi Wolf
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy
Short Beauty Myth Quotes
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. — Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it. — D. H. Lawrence
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. — Jean De La Bruyere
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. — Philippe Starck
Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror. — Joubert Botha
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. — Agnes Martin
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. — Donna Tartt
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. — Simone Weil
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. — Albert Camus
Beauty Myth Image Quotes
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Myth Quotes
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. — Robert Fulghum
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? — John Lennon
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. — Joseph Campbell
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. — Gurbaksh Chahal
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. — Rigoberta Menchu
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. — George Orwell
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether. — Nikola Tesla
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. — Plato
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. — Audrey Hepburn
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard P. Feynman
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue. — Plotinus
A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. — Beyonce Knowles
I Am Beautiful Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. — Marilyn Monroe
I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. — Hildegard of Bingen
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. — Mother Teresa
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. — Marie Curie
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. — Frida Kahlo
I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings. — Janusz Korczak
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent
You Are Beautiful Quotes
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed. — Shams Tabrizi
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl Rogers
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful. — Michelle Obama
Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. — Pele
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly. — Gerard Way
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. — Chogyam Trungpa
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. — Naomi Wolf
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters? — Tim Minchin
The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision. — Naomi Wolf
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths. — J. R. R. Tolkien
A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. — Naomi Wolf
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. — Naomi Wolf
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. — Naomi Wolf
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life. — Mark Rothko
The moment there is imagination there is myth — Camille Paglia
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. — Naomi Wolf
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by many authors. Some of its myths, like the Star of Bethlehem, are very beautiful. Others are dull and ugly. Some express lofty ideals, such as the parables of Jesus. Others are morally disgusting. — Martin Gardner
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. — David Levithan
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful — Oscar Wilde
The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth. — Nancy Etcoff
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis. — D. M. Thomas
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen. — Milan Kundera
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. — E.M. Forster
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it. — Nancy Etcoff
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. — Naomi Wolf
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life - birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it. — Michael Shermer
That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth. — Sylvia Plath
Something you discover as a writer is that actresses who are successful are incredibly smart. For some reason, there's this myth that if you're a beautiful actress, you're not bright, you're a puppet. But it's completely the opposite. These are people with a finely tuned sense of story, and who are also strong and articulate. You have to be, to be a woman holding your own on TV and film sets. — Liz W. Garcia
I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about. — Brie Larson
One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society's standard of beauty. — Tee Corinne
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons
The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter
You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. — Rainbow Rowell
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. — Naomi Wolf
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill. — Naomi Wolf
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. — E. M. Forster
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