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title: "2 80s Quotes By Naomi Wolf"
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> [People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's not that much fun to be an activist. That's partly by design. They are sterile protests and anonymous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/people-who-have-come-of-age-from-the-80s-on-have-experienced-a-form/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f3/naomi-wolf-1344_80s_people-who-have-come-of-age-from-the-80s_1081089.png)

> [There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/there-was-a-bad-patch-in-the-80s-and-early-90s-when-feminist-thinking/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/172/naomi-wolf-1344_80s_there-was-a-bad-patch-in-the-80s-and-ear_1912085.png)

## Other authors on 80s

## More by Naomi Wolf

> [“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/you-could-see-the-signs-of-female-aging-as-diseased-especially-if-you/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/demographically-i-m-a-hippie-from-san-francisco-and-i-m-not/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/there-s-been-a-systematic-propagandizing-of-american-citizens-for-30/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/maybe-the-less-pain-we-inflict-on-our-bodies-the-more-beautiful-our/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-rise-of-the-beauty-myth-was-just-one-of-several-emerging-social/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-victorian-woman-became-her-ovaries-as-today-s-woman-has-become/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-anthropologist-margaret-mead-concluded-in-1948-after-observing/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/what-becomes-of-a-man-who-acquires-a-beautiful-woman-with-her-beauty/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/beauty-is-a-currency-system-like-the-gold-standard-like-any-economy/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/rape-and-sexual-assault-should-be-understood-not-just-as-a-form-of/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-qualities-that-a-given-period-calls-beautiful-in-women-are-merely/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/to-live-in-a-culture-in-which-women-are-routinely-naked-where-men/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/a-white-person-who-claims-to-have-no-impediment-of-vision-in-this/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth-sets-it-up-this-way-a-high-rating-as-an-art-object-is/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

> [“Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them “vital lies,” and psychologist Daniel Goleman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/societies-tell-themselves-necessary-fictions-in-the-same-way-that/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

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