It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.
– Liane Moriarty
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- If he could just have one more chance, he’d act like the man he’d always believed himself to be. – Liane Moriarty
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- Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. – Liane Moriarty
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- People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes. – Liane Moriarty
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- You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
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- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive. – John F MacArthur Jr
- To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her ‘attractive’ would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave. – Mallika Nawal
- The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. – Betty Friedan
- What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important. – Hemanta Bhatt
- Society is obsessed with women’s bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body – Malebo Sephodi
- Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life. – Billy Graham
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself. – Sherry Argov
- A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. – Simone Weil
- The greatest gift to man is woman, But the greatest gift to woman is herself. – CC Campbell
- Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness. – Toni Sorenson
- A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. – John Eldredge
- You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside. – Emily Coussons
- She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. – Anna Godbersen
- Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest. – Ray Bradbury
- … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese
- She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. – H Raven Rose
- She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself. – Sara Sheridan
- Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society. – Anthony T Hinkcs
- Girls are obsessed with beauty. They make this world beautiful, by being beautiful. – Toffee