Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is… — 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
When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic. — 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
