Naomi Wolf Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

• A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

  Naomi Wolf

  Bad Ass, Mad, Political

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

• 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

  Men, Long, Naked

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.139, Random House

• What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

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

• 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

• Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

  Naomi Wolf

  Character, Men, Males

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

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

• There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Creative, Age

• When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Motivation, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something you pay money for. Think of being outside of what you have and own, it always has to be receiving a difference.

  Naomi Wolf

  Good Life, Mean, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Moving, Clothes, Numbers

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