"Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight." ― Naomi Wolf Topic(s): Equality More From Naomi Wolf "‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact." "Most urgently, women’s identity must be premised upon our “beauty” so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air." "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." More In Equality "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."― B. R. Ambedkar "I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn’t that funny? The tables have turned."― Kristen Bell "I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."― Moses Mendelssohn