All Naomi Wolf Quotes
- Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Civil
- For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts. All
- No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… Appearance
- Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of… Air
- I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion. Believer
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. Appear
- 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West… Age
- Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. Been
- Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or… Believe
- Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. Business
- It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and… America
- Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. Course
- Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. Cover
- In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George… Age
- Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. Broad
- How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? America
- In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to… Courageous
- It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic. Catastrophic
- My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. Critics
- Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss. All
- The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. Allow
- The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. African
- 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… 80s
- To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. Ask
- When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. Baby