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368 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2024
‘We need to be careful which stories we tell. Think of all the fairy tales where the heroes are handsome and the villains are ugly. So much misery comes from clinging to something as flimsy and subjective as beauty, but that’s often our shorthand for good and evil.’
‘It constrains those who identify as women against their will…it can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.'