Quotes & Sayings About Bleaching Your Skin

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead - all at least mildly toxic, sometimes very much more so - for pale skin was a sign of supreme loveliness. (Which makes the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets an exotic being in the extreme.) — Bill Bryson

Every voyage is self-awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us ... During the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty ... pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal ... More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers. — Naomi Wolf

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not. — Tamar Braxton

Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan. — Jess Row

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. — John Burns

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka... — Les Edgerton