Constraints Quote by Naomi Wolf Download Open image “Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.” — Naomi Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constraints Ideals Self esteem Western
I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature.… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
“What has been valued in the West in women has too often been defined only in relation to the masculine: the good, nurturant mother and wife; the sweet, docile agreeable daughter; the gently supportive of bright achieving partner. This collective model is inadequate for life; we mutilate, depotentiate, silence and enrage ourselves trying to compress our souls into it just… — Sylvia Perera Copy Share
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in… — Asra Nomani Copy Share
“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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
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 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
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 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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
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 myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
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
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence… If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of… — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image