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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
– Naomi Wolf

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  2. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance. – Yuval Noah Harari
  3. Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart. – Hemant Smarty
  4. Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you. – Kris Kidd
  5. A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. – Naomi Wolf
  6. Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it. – Naomi Wolf
  7. They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers. – C G Jung
  8. Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more. – Tim Palmer
  9. Wolves don’t hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. – John Fowles
  10. It’s not the appearance that makes a man, it’s the man that makes an appearance. – Anthony Liccione
  11. Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. – Naomi Wolf
  12. You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all. – Naomi Wolf
  13. Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. – Naomi Wolf
  14. She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. – Naomi Wolf
  15. What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? – Naomi Wolf
  16. Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. – Naomi Wolf
  17. If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. – Naomi Wolf
  18. Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf
  19. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. – Naomi Wolf
  20. Are women beautiful or aren’t we? – Naomi Wolf
  21. It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom. – Naomi Wolf
  22. Advertisers are the West’s courteous censors. – Naomi Wolf
  23. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. – Naomi Wolf
  24. Health makes good propaganda. – Naomi Wolf
  25. To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. – Naomi Wolf
  26. The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he – Walter Bower
  27. She is so tiresome. -˜Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both! – Melika Dannese Lux
  28. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
  29. A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty – Janna Cachola
  30. Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty. – Debasish Mridha
  31. The wiser I become, the less I think beauty has anything to do with appearance. – Steve Maraboli
  32. Size doesn’t define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn’t measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul. – Angelica Hopes
  33. Graceful beauty is a modest appearance. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  34. Behaviour comes from a life of indoctrination. – Steven Redhead
  35. Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process. – Garry L Landreth
  36. Motivational quotes inspire people to change behaviour. Can you imagine how dramatically the word of God can change lives? – Alin Sav
  37. The behaviour and attitude of another person’s towards you reflect their state of inner self and mindset. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  38. Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour – Merlyn Gabriel Miller
  39. Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. – Oskar Morgenstern
  40. Character is just an invention, but it’s an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. – Broken Verses – Kamila Shamsie

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