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Woman Quotes by Naomi Wolf
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
- The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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,…
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