Pretty Modern Quotes

• Ester: '"My dream is to work with numbers"'
• Edmond: '"Ester left school at fourteen to help her mother work"'
• Ester: '"She is only nine. Soon there will be lots of boys after her. It would be better for her if she were less pretty"'
• Ester: '"I was born bald, naked and without teeth"'
• Tatiana: '"Oh, it's part of daily life now" (plastic surgery)'
• Claudia Regina: '"You see, the doctors here are just students."'
• Bruno: '"Plastica e moda (plastica is fashion)"'
• Lucia: '"Everything to become young again"'
• Lucia: '"To find a husband"'
• Lucia: '"Back when I was really pretty"'
• Edmond: '"A psychologist with a scalpel in his hand"'
• Edmond: '"Medical tourism"'
• Vulgar: '"The poor as much as the rich, "suffer from aesthetic defects""'
• Vulgar: '"She couldn't afford the bus fare to the hospital"'
• Edmond: '"Patients disfigured by industrial fires and traffic accidents wait in the same hallways along with women seeking liposcultura"'
• Edmond: '"The poor are granted "a right to beauty" in a country where other rights are neglected"'
• Edmond: '"(a procedure not considered "safe" by plastic surgeons)"'
• Edmond: '"Wealthy women become amused or perturbed that "even maids" are having plastic surgery"'
• A Brazilian Proverb: '"White women for marriage; mulatas for screwing; black women for work"'
• Edmond: '"The female body was certainly an object of an elite, patriarchal gaze"'
• Edmond: '"Sociobiologists argue we are "Hard-wired" by evolution to be drawn to beautiful people"'
• Edmond: '"Beauty industries can create bodily alienation, stress, and eating disorders – why then should they continue to flourish?"'
• Preta: '"But I have the right because it's my body"'
• Preta: '"She is a woman; she has the right"'
• Preta: '"But I came out of the surgery with a deep depression" "I saw that I had mutilated my body"'
• Ester: '"But a necessary aesthetic surgery"'
• Ester: '"Surgery improves a woman's' auto-estima (self-Esteem)"'
• Pitanguy: '"Patients whose appearance I improved were often more grateful to me than a patient whose life I had saved"'