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Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: In a fascist shift, reporters start to face

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: It is all impersonal; it is political.

It is all impersonal; it is political. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The First Amendment was designed to allow for

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: You do not win by struggling to the

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: I'm a big believer in debate and difference

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Health makes good propaganda.

Health makes good propaganda. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: A cultural fixation on female thinness is not

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: There was a bad patch in the '80s

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: It seemed to me, watching, that if you

It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: It has been said that each generation must

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: something important is indeed at stake that has

something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist

Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: It is human nature to abuse power, no

It is human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: It is never smart, even in a strong

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Maybe the less pain we inflict on our

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Sara Wolf: Ello, love. Fancy a cuppa?""You're not British, Isis,"

Ello, love. Fancy a cuppa?"
"You're not British, Isis," Naomi says.
"I can be things," I insist. — Sara Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Liz Goldwyn: I had a very feminist mother who exposed

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Women have face-lifts in a society in which

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Dieting makes women think of ourselves as sick,

Dieting makes women think of ourselves as sick, religious babies. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Are women beautiful or aren't we? — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing,

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: What editors are obliged to appear to say

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: If women cannot eat the same food as

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Women who love themselves are threatening; but men

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth is not about women at

The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women,

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Western women have been controlled by ideals and

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness;

Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: What little girls learn is not the desire

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: My job is to notice echoes and notice

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Many of the signals that either stoke or

Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here? — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Pain is real when you get other people

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her beauty. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Become goddesses of disobedience.

Become goddesses of disobedience. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: We are in the midst of a violent

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: As women demanded access to power, the power

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: To ask women to become unnaturally thin is

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically

Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than

Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness

Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: The symbolic value of having an African-American president

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Protesters should make their own media and not

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: the central rule of the myth: For every

the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. — Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Quotes By Naomi Wolf: Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf