Naomi Wolf Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 12, 1962
Birthday: November 12
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.
topic: Beautiful, Believe, Men, Fashion Industry, Looking Beautiful, Unwilling, Hypochondriac
