{"quotes":[{"text":"See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.","author":"J.P. Donleavy","tags":["hands","plastic-surgery","youth"],"id":87308,"author_id":"J.P.+Donleavy"},{"text":"What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity-gossip","celebutard","dark-humor","fake","fake-people","faking","humor","hype","inner-beauty","kim-kardashian","mainstream-media","plastic","plastic-surgery","prettiness","pretty","real-beauty","shallow-appearances","ugliness"],"id":103830,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["beauty","beauty-standards","clubbing","cosmetic-surgery","cosmetics","diet","diet-industry","dieting","dieting-humor","fashion","fashion-industry","fashion","girls","girls-night","mating","mating-ritual","men-and-women","perfume","perfume","plastic-surgery","women","women-and-men"],"id":109563,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment 'flattens the terrain of power relations.' In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it.","author":"Andi Zeisler","tags":["appearances","choices","expectations","feminism","plastic-surgery"],"id":260643,"author_id":"Andi+Zeisler"},{"text":"That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts….","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["body-image","cyberpunk","materialism","meaning","plastic-surgery","reality","reflection","society","technology"],"id":277083,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here.'Look!' She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT.'That car looks like a moving Benton ad.'Or a pileup on Rodeo drive.' Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.","author":"Lisi Harrison","tags":["automobile","differences","individual","new-town","plastic-surgery","regrets"],"id":381539,"author_id":"Lisi+Harrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}