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Them Quotes by Naomi Wolf
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
- Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
- To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
- Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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