Self esteem Quotes by Naomi Wolf
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Naomi Wolf argues that the beauty myth works like a hidden currency that shapes women’s lives. She describes how it ties women’s identity to appearance and how it can be used by power structures to limit advancement. She also points out that this myth can affect men’s perceptions and behavior.
![“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/137/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_men-who-read-it-beauty-pornography-don-t_3112440.png)
![“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies. The questions, Whom do I desire? Why? What will I do about it? are turned around: Would I desire…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5f/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_their-girls-sexual-energy-their-evaluati_2930091.jpg)
![“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_where-woman-do-not-fit-the-iron-maiden-s_891982.png)
