Beauty can be universally perceived in the
obvious power of a presence, in the silent aliveness of a body and in the
brightness of eyes.
“Whatever is deeply, essentially female: the life
in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the
transformations after childbirth of her skin, is being reclassified as ugly,
and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female
power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of power. 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 exist on the woman's body, and how much of a
female life does not show on her face?”
(Naomi Wolf)
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