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A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author and feminist. Time magazine, p. 88 (February 17, 1992).

In an article which satirically criticized breast implants in particular.

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