#magazines

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#anything #back #became #because #big

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#bigger #consumers #into #magazines #mold

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#how #i #insane #juggling #living

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#away #bundle #by the time #habits #heavy

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#ascended #away #believe #i #kicking

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. ↗

— Matt Groening

#books #covers #ever #extensively #fiction

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#i #magazines #modeling #shows #started

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #ideas #important #magazines

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #i #ideas #important