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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. — Naomi Wolf

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health makes good propaganda. — Naomi Wolf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"You're not British, Isis," Naomi says.
"I can be things," I insist. — Sara Wolf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Become goddesses of disobedience. — Naomi Wolf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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