#reo

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#body-image #self-esteem-or-lack-thereof #beauty

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#anything #basically #because #being #being a girl

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. ↗

— William Drummond

#art #part #really #study #thee

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#been #certain #change #choreography #dance

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#am #background #choreography #costumes #deal

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#appreciate #day #exist #fears #i

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#forever #going #i #i think #scared

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#actor #because #better #blond #blond hair