Culture Quotes by Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— Naomi Wolf

Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something…

— 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

There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings…

— Naomi Wolf

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude…

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

— Naomi Wolf

“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,…

— Naomi Wolf

“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows…

— Naomi Wolf

“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations…

— Naomi Wolf

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need…

— Naomi Wolf

“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and 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

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

— 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

“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits…

— 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

“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

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity…

— Naomi Wolf

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate…

— Naomi Wolf