I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.
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Jodi Picoult
Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.
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Suzy Kassem
If you are always right, something is not right of you. If you always want to be right, still something is wrong with you. Wisdom and knowledge, growth and maturity, prosperity and success - these things don't always come from the right things, in fact,...
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Kabelo Mabona
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
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Mary Balogh
If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.
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Aleksandra Layland
More Quotes By Naomi Wolf
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies, " two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external...
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral...
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.
[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for...
