Top Equality Quotes
Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits for...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
Cosmetic surgery is not cosmetic, and human flesh is not plastic. Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, feminism, sexuality, images, body image, magazines
Equality Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.
(n.) Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
(n.) Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
(n.) Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does.
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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equality, marriage, lesbians, 2010, gays, same sex marriage, civil liberties, california, prop 8
He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red...
Anthony Liccione
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equality, poetry, humanity, realization, light, breathing, shame, fortune, cigarette, heart beat
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduc...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ug...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies....
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, feminism, sexuality, images, body image, magazines