Relinquish Quote by Naomi Wolf Download Open image “To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.” — Naomi Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask Relinquish Relinquish Relinquish Sexuality Sexuality Unnaturally Ask Women Unnaturally
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies. — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
“I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don’t find that… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my… — Felicity Huffman 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
You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“When we agonize over those things outside ourselves, the hurt we feel is measured by the weight we alone give it. Therefore, we alone… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“The time has come. I really feel I must relinquish my former identity. I have to try to make a change, or I will… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something. — Joseph Benavidez Copy Share Image
“To be with someone who is stronger than you. To have him relinquish his strength.” — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
