#surgery

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#getting #issue #looming #plastic #plastic surgery

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#any #because #bodies #feel #feel good

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ↗

— Al McGuire

#only #only time #overrated #really #surgery

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#acting #being #being honest #being real #better

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three.... ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#learning #school #vp-shunt #writing #age

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. ↗

— J.P. Donleavy

#plastic-surgery #youth #age

One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it as genital mutilation; in the U.S. of A., it's called cosmetic enhancement. But both procedures are based on misogynist notions of female genitalia as ugly, dirty, and shameful. And though American procedures are generally performed under vastly better conditions (with the benefit of, say, anesthesia and antibiotics), the postsurgical results can be similarly horrific, involving loss of sensation, chronic pain, and infection. ↗

— Julia Scheeres

#insecurity #plastic-surgery #sex #age

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside? ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#celebrity-culture #celebrity-gossip #celebutard #dark-humor #fake