Beauty myth Quotes by Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…

— 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

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from…

— 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

“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

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they…

— Naomi Wolf

“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…

— Naomi Wolf

“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and…

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

— Naomi Wolf