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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

“How might women act beyond the myth? Who can say?… Maybe the less pain women inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us. Perhaps we will forget to elicit admiration from strangers, and find that we don’t miss it; perhaps we will await our older faces with anticipation, and be unable to see our bodies as a mass of imperfections, since there is nothing on us that is not precious. Maybe we won’t want to be the “after” anymore. 

How to begin? Let’s be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and eat and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women’s choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely the sex we do not want. Choose our own causes. And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it: In a sensual politics, female is beautiful.”

Don’t wait for an outside voice to tell you that you’re beautiful as you were, as you are, and as you will be. You need to hear it from yourself.

Here’s the news… now was it the right step? The intentions are positive, but they are ostracizing a small, albeit equally important, group of women who are very thin when healthy. It is meant to attack media standards in order to try to save lives, but is this the way to do it? Will it be effective? It is certainly controversial, but only time can tell. For now all we can tell is that it is a bold move to place blame on media and force standards upon them in a desperate attempt to reverse the negative impact of body standards for future generations. 

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“What we know from lab studies is that it’s never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure — that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.”

And when life throws you planes, embrace those too. Love your body no matter what shape!