Naomi Wolf Quotes

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• The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh…
• Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm…
• When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do…
• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are…
• Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as…
• Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this…
• The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the…
• What editors are obliged to appear to say that
• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
• The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales…
• What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
• The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only…
• Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything.…
• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us.…
• Become goddesses of disobedience.
• We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
• The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born…
• Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are…
• 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.

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