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Female Quotes by Naomi Wolf

9 Female quotes by Naomi Wolf

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Wolf’s concise statements on femininity reflect her scholarly edge and activist drive.

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

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The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the…

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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…

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We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's…

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

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

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

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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is…

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

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Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and…

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There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our…

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Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

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

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

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

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What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…

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

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“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a…

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

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

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a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when…

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

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“Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them “vital lies,” and psychologist Daniel Goleman…

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