Cosmetic surgery Quote by Naomi Wolf

“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact…

— Naomi Wolf

“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you…

— Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

— Naomi Wolf

“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply…

— Naomi Wolf

“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth…

— Naomi Wolf

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by…

— Naomi Wolf

“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only…

— Naomi Wolf

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response,…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to…

— Naomi Wolf

“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies,…

— Naomi Wolf

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe…

— Naomi Wolf

“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman…

— Naomi Wolf