Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women’s status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
![“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for women materially and…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e1a/naomi-wolf-1344_beauty_the-ideology-of-beauty-has-grown-strong_1849608.jpg)
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![“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right." That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9af/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_never-enjoins-a-women-s-magazine-mention_2031183.jpg)
