Naomi Wolf

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or…

— Naomi Wolf

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our eauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital…

— Naomi Wolf

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

— 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

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

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

— 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

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well…

— Naomi Wolf

“Every woman is wired differently. Some women's nerves branch more in the vagina; other women's nerves branch more in the clitoris. Some…

— 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

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Naomi Wolf

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth…

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow,…

— Naomi Wolf

“I thought of how many women told me dispiritedly about how their husbands waited for them to ask—or to make a list—and…

— Naomi Wolf

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.…

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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…

— Naomi Wolf

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain…

— Naomi Wolf

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained…

— Naomi Wolf

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an…

— Naomi Wolf

“The modern hallucination in which women are trapped or trap themselves is similarly rigid, cruel, and euphemistically painted. Contemporary culture directs attention…

— Naomi Wolf

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' -…

— Naomi Wolf

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community…

— Naomi Wolf

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists…

— Naomi Wolf

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party…

— Naomi Wolf

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these…

— Naomi Wolf

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be…

— 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

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote.…

— Naomi Wolf