All Naomi Wolf Quotes
- When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… Aimed
- Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. Bodies
- The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. Beauty
- The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary… Ad
- The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… Beautiful
- The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for… Bodies
- Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of… Admire
- She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. Beautiful
- Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… Actually Seeing
- What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no… Acquires
- Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric,… Altering
- Health makes good propaganda. Fashion Industry
- Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick… Been
- What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? Culture
- Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. Beauty
- A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political… Bad Ass
- Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not… Allowed
- As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think… Able
- For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link… All
- It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of… Based
- The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed… Audiences