Beauty Quote by Naomi Wolf

“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding…

— Naomi Wolf

“Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and…

— Naomi Wolf

“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust…

— 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

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

— Naomi Wolf

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing…

— Naomi Wolf

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces…

— Anonymous

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

— Jack Vance

“Beauty in life and fiction is a mixture of Fairy Tale and Tragedy. Men see a pretty face and want to claim the image…

— Lori Jones

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”

— Shulamith Firestone

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the…

— Dave Hickey

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks…

— Mary Wollstonecraft