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
a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is… — 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
I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or… — 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
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
We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something… — 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
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking. — 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
