Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to…

— Naomi Wolf

Become goddesses of disobedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Don't sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed…

— Naomi Wolf

“The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their…

— Naomi Wolf

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

— Naomi Wolf

“Peace is bad for business. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. defense industry was staring into the face of…

— Naomi Wolf

To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone…

— Naomi Wolf

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn…

— Naomi Wolf

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

— Naomi Wolf

“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows…

— Naomi Wolf

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera…

— Naomi Wolf

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

— Naomi Wolf

Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become -…

— Naomi Wolf

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and…

— Naomi Wolf

“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her…

— Naomi Wolf

“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude…

— Naomi Wolf

The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I…

— Naomi Wolf