Skip to content

Advancement Quote by Naomi Wolf

“As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.” quote by Naomi Wolf — Download Open image

“As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Advancement Beauty Beauty myth Myth Power Self esteem Structure Used

More by Naomi Wolf

“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that a woman is healthy if she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and…

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and…

Image

There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our rights are and what our system is and what our core principles are. And one of them since 1807 has been this right that the founding generation put in place, to make sure that military troops…

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

Image

“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the better to enclose those women inside it. Other such fictions arose contemporaneously: a version of childhood that required continual maternal supervision; a concept of female biology that required middle-class women to act out the roles of…

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

Image

“The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of…

Image

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…

Image

“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the…

Image

“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a…

Image

“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”

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.

Image

Explore all 251 Naomi Wolf quotes

More Advancement quotes

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,…

Christopher Bond

Image

They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected…

Gregory Palamas

Image

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they…

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Stefan Molyneux

Image

“Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.”

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Image

Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism…

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Image

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks…

Image

Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion.…

Image

“Always work towards a dream or you'll always dream of working elsewhere.”

Image

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern:…

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial,…

Image

Browse all 397 Advancement quotes