#mage

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#could #damage #did #economy #found

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#decided #holding #i #image #implying

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#image #love #lust #sensation

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#culture #images #media #whoever

Where does personality end and brain damage begin? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #brain damage #damage #does #end

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image. ↗

— Brian Cox

#elephant #get #i #i always #image

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#far #follow #how #image #matter

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#abstract art #art #been #concrete #exact

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? ↗

— Paul Darrow

#damaged #him #i #look #objectively