“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.”

“As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.”

“Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!”

“The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.”

“Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.”

“Because men's idea of masculinity can rarely be realized at work they have developed a masculine style for their leisure and social activities that consists of excessive signs of masculinity in an exaggerated and compensatory display. The same gap between the ideological ideal and social experience also explains the sexism and aggressiveness of much adolescent male style, for, like lower-class men, young boys are also denied the social means to exercise the power that our ideology tells them is the prerequisite of their masculinity.”