Naomi Wolf

“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language…

— Naomi Wolf

When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I…

— 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

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all…

— Naomi Wolf

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

— Naomi Wolf

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the…

— 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…

— Naomi Wolf

We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope…

— Naomi Wolf

“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that…

— Naomi Wolf

“The modern hallucination in which women are trapped or trap themselves is similarly rigid, cruel, and euphemistically painted. Contemporary culture directs attention…

— Naomi Wolf

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an…

— Naomi Wolf

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' -…

— Naomi Wolf

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists…

— Naomi Wolf

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party…

— Naomi Wolf

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community…

— Naomi Wolf

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and…

— Naomi Wolf

“The proof that the One Stone Solution is political lies in what women feel when they eat 'too much': guilt. Why should…

— Naomi Wolf

“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see…

— Naomi Wolf

People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's…

— Naomi Wolf

“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a…

— Naomi Wolf

“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman…

— Naomi Wolf

“Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are…

— Naomi Wolf

“Housework’s modern status,” writes Ann Oakley, “is nonwork.” A recent study shows that if housework done by married women were paid, family…

— 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

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

— Naomi Wolf

“When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: 'We're afraid they'll kill us.' When men were…

— Naomi Wolf

“Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of…

— Naomi Wolf

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had…

— Naomi Wolf

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to…

— 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

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very…

— Naomi Wolf

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a…

— Naomi Wolf

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency:…

— 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

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

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

— Naomi Wolf

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by…

— 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…

— 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

Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become -…

— Naomi Wolf