Thinking Quotes by Naomi Wolf

14 Thinking quotes by Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf’s fourteen reflections on thinking intersect feminist critique with cultural analysis. Her words challenge readers to question dominant narratives and consider how ideas shape gender and power dynamics.

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It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

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I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

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What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had…

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a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth.…

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I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or…

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I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active,…

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If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else…

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Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something…

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When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is…

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We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope…

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Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is…

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If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to…

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Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

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“The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of…

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What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…

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“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty…

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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.

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