What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained… — 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
I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well… — 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
There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera… — 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
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
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 last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to… — 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
“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
![“When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcc/naomi-wolf-1344_beauty_when-beauty-pornography-is-aimed-at-men_2038836.jpg)
