Naomi Wolf Quotes

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• We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

  Naomi Wolf

  Fashion, Imitation, Photograph

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House

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• The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Winning, Challenges

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• 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. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual - and hence social - confidence while undermining that of women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Long, Culture

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

  Naomi Wolf

  Cowboy, Enemy, Guilt

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• A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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• Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

  Naomi Wolf

  Truth, Women Empowerment, Empowering Women

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• Become goddesses of disobedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Funny Graduation, Goddess, Disobedience

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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• To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and having autonomy and dignity. It's not pitting one gender against another, it's not saying anything is better, it's just clearing away injustice.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fighting, Rights, Democracy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mind, Culture, Body

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Encouragement, Pain, Real

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Rooms, Intensity

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Advancement, Structure

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Achieve, Standards

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• Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Real, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

  Naomi Wolf

  Voice, Grace, Excellence

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• Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Sight, Faces

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• Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  Naomi Wolf

  Erotic, Desire, Sexiness

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Perception, Discrimination

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Men, Majority

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Pain, Looks

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• Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fabulous Life, Fabulous, Schadenfreude

  "Madonna acts just like a serious male artist would - and people hate her for it" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

  Naomi Wolf

  Abuse, Matter, Human Nature

  "The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen". Interview with Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. November 20, 2007.

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• Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

  Naomi Wolf

  Peaceful, Usual, Protest

  "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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