A brass balance holds gold coins on one side and pale roses on the other against dusty pink.

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Gertrude Stein

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

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The speaker's view is that women's magazines mainly aim to shape readers into ever more devoted shoppers, rather than to inform or empower them. It is a critical claim about commerce steering ideas of womanhood, framed with a sweeping most and a dry edge.

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