Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
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As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 241
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Also quoted in The Observer London UK newspaper (28 December 1986)Kathleen Turner
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It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
Women have conceptualized less in history not because men have kept them from doing so but because women do not need to conceptualize in order to exist. […] Fetishism, for instance, a practice which like most of the sex perversions is confined to men, is clearly a conceptualizing or symbol-making activity. Man’s vastly greater commercial patronage of pornography is analogous.
Camille Paglia
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
I hadn't aimed at anything. If I had thought of the bullet's hitting anything, I don't remember now. I was the great marksman, anyway. If I aimed at nothing, then nothing is what I would hit. The bullet was a symbol, and nobody was ever hurt by a symbol. It was a farewell to my childhood and a confirmation of my manhood. Why didn't I use a blank cartridge? What kind of a symbol would that have been?
Kurt Vonnegut
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Warren Farrell
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