#plastic

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman. ↗

— Courtney Love

#body #i #me #need #plastic

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#get #got #i #into #liked

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#had #i #i wish #know #like

I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#believe #bothered #chooses #else #get

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#elephant #hollywood #like #living #living room

We've become a plastic society. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#plastic #society

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. ↗

— J.P. Donleavy

#plastic-surgery #youth #age

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#had #i #i can #people #plastic