“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
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — 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
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn… — 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
“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
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — 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
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — 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 man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. — 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
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — 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
