Naomi Wolf

“Are women beautiful or aren't we?”

— Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

— Naomi Wolf

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

— Naomi Wolf

Health makes good propaganda.

— Naomi Wolf

“Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics.”

— Naomi Wolf

Become goddesses of disobedience.

— Naomi Wolf

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

— Naomi Wolf

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

— Naomi Wolf

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

— Naomi Wolf

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

— Naomi Wolf

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

— Naomi Wolf

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf

Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if…

— Naomi Wolf

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to…

— Naomi Wolf

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether…

— Naomi Wolf

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can…

— Naomi Wolf

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

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize…

— Naomi Wolf

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they…

— Naomi Wolf

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age…

— Naomi Wolf

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— 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…

— Naomi Wolf

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii…

— Naomi Wolf

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The…

— Naomi Wolf

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is…

— Naomi Wolf

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow…

— Naomi Wolf

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on…

— Naomi Wolf

“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken…

— Naomi Wolf

“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they…

— Naomi Wolf

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s…

— Naomi Wolf

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she…

— Naomi Wolf

“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine…

— Naomi Wolf