Beauty Quotes by Naomi Wolf

“Are women beautiful or aren't we?”

— Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

— Naomi Wolf

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

— Naomi Wolf

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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…

— Naomi Wolf

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn…

— Naomi Wolf

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the…

— Naomi Wolf

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in…

— Naomi Wolf

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age…

— Naomi Wolf

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize…

— Naomi Wolf

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as…

— Naomi Wolf

“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable:…

— Naomi Wolf

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained…

— Naomi Wolf

“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her…

— Naomi Wolf

“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age…

— Naomi Wolf

Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have…

— Naomi Wolf

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera…

— Naomi Wolf

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth…

— Naomi Wolf

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.…

— Naomi Wolf

“The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their…

— Naomi Wolf

“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do…

— Naomi Wolf

“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis…

— Naomi Wolf

“Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the “ideal.” When a woman looks…

— Naomi Wolf

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices…

— Naomi Wolf

“The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door…

— Naomi Wolf

“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women…

— Naomi Wolf

“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron…

— Naomi Wolf

“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.”

— Naomi Wolf

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital…

— Naomi Wolf

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have…

— Naomi Wolf

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to…

— Naomi Wolf