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Quotes About Skin-deep

Whiteness did not preserve any woman from ownership by men; it did bestow a skin-deep privilege that could delude her as to her fundamental object-status as woman, unenfranchised and dominated.
~ Adrienne Rich
Todo es superficial, nena, todo es epi-dér-mico.
~ Julio Cortazar
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
~ Henry David Thoreau