Naomi Wolf Quotes
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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 only his own disillusion.
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.
From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.
When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.
It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.
Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.
