#elf

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#body-image #self-esteem #society #weight #beauty

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#immerse #just #listening #making #music

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#after #animal #back #day #each

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#book #close #comes #eyes #go

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#actor #ant #done #guess #high

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#ago #anymore #catalog #doing #grows

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up. ↗

— Cat Deeley

#being famous #changed #famous #grown #hasn