Naomi Wolf Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
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.
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.
something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
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.
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction.