The standards of beauty in America's uber-culture are purposefully set too high so that we will buy anything in our frantic scramble to become attractive. We are meant to feel crushed, inadequate, and less-than so that we'll buy more and more things in the vain hope of "fixing" ourselves.
-- Kate Bornstein, Hello, Cruel World, p. 128
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