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Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
White women, especially white feminists, need me to lean in to pseudoreligious consumerist teachings that beauty is democratic and achievable. Beauty must be democratic. If it is not, then beauty becomes a commodity, distributed unequally and, even worse, at random.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
To create beauty is to grow and return to what was always there. To chisel away and to embrace. To birth and to release. Beauty is not inherent. It is not affixed, or perfect. True beauty is not insertable, and it is not applicable. Beauty is cultivated. Beauty is honest. Beauty is a way of life. Be, always, beautiful.
Pedro Tofua • Returning to Center: Passages for Reconnecting with the Spirit, Changing the World, and Becoming Who You're Meant to Be
