Naomi Wolf

“Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.”

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically.”

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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

Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take…

— Naomi Wolf

“Ads do not sell sex—that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were…

— Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been…

— Naomi Wolf

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

— Naomi Wolf

Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to…

— Naomi Wolf

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually…

— Naomi Wolf

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations…

— Naomi Wolf

When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is…

— 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

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow…

— Naomi Wolf

“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and…

— Naomi Wolf

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on…

— Naomi Wolf

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is…

— Naomi Wolf

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii…

— Naomi Wolf

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The…

— Naomi Wolf

“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken…

— Naomi Wolf

“The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different…

— Naomi Wolf

“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or…

— Naomi Wolf

“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy… Too much importance…

— Naomi Wolf

“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she…

— Naomi Wolf

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced…

— Naomi Wolf

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.”

— Naomi Wolf

I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how…

— Naomi Wolf

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they…

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

— Naomi Wolf

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to…

— Naomi Wolf