Beauty Quote by Naomi Wolf

“The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the…

— Naomi Wolf

“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

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it…

— Naomi Wolf

“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does…

— Ted Chiang

“Possibilities for women have become so open-ended that they threaten to destabilize the institutions on which a male-dominated culture has depended, and a collective…

— Anonymous

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced in the…

— Naomi Wolf

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

— Naomi Wolf

“The "fashion-beauty complex'," representing the corporate interests involved in the fashion and beauty industries, has, Bartky argues, taken over from the family and church…

— Sheila Jeffreys

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

— Nancy Friday

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to…

— Naomi Wolf