289 quotes found
“Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.”
“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If youve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to ...”
“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
“The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame,...”
“Its never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, s...”
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect fo...”
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax ...”
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and ...”
“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 be...”
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness an...”
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
“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 ...”
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily availab...”
“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
“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 cle...”
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do...”
