Feminism Quote by Naomi Wolf Download Open image ““Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics.”” — Naomi Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Sexuality
For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems… — Susan Shaw Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent… — Rene Konig Copy Share Image
“The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I started to pour some of my passion into politics. I later learnt that a man who has passion in his politics is usually… — Waguih Ghali Copy Share Image
“One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words,… — Rhiannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, the abiding sexuality of the healthy female was obliged to wear a prim disguise.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I have discovered that we do not hold our sexuality but our sexuality holds us.” — Rakesh Satyal Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“This story is not at all an uncommon one in tech circles, including gaming. The popular notion is that women who get ahead must… — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
