Quotes from Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.