Naomi WolfIn the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Nig… ▶372DeathTruth
Naomi WolfA cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. ✨ Naomi Wolf (2013). The Beauty Myth: How Images of B… ▶351Death
Naomi Wolf...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true America… ▶364PoliticsReadingTime
Naomi WolfThe beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. ✨ Naomi Wolf (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage364Death
Naomi WolfTo ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.354Reading
Naomi WolfThere was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests. ✨ Naomi Wolf answers your q… ▶321Thought
Naomi WolfThe last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement betwee… ▶332LoveTruth
Naomi WolfWhen women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy mea… ▶311HopePoliticsTruth
Naomi WolfThe press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free pres… ▶344Sadness
Naomi WolfIn 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of overpermiticisation - requirements that were designed to… ▶377Politics
Naomi WolfHow is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? ✨ Q&A with Naomi Wolf: equal pay for women by N… ▶323Humanity
Naomi WolfI'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.345Death
Naomi WolfThe woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision. ✨ The Beauty Myth. Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.323Reading
Naomi WolfBeauty 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… ▶345Sadness
Naomi WolfOf course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs… ▶379Time
Naomi WolfPain 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 (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage346HumanitySadness
Naomi WolfIt has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy ✨ Naomi Wolf (2008). Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries,… ▶324Reading
Naomi WolfA 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 his… ▶368DeathPoliticsReading
Naomi WolfThe surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking beautiful. If women can… ▶357Death
Naomi WolfOur society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty fixes that harm our long-term health, since our li… ▶347HumanityLifeTime
Naomi WolfThe First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. ✨ The First Amendment and the Obligation to … ▶325Humanity
Naomi WolfToday, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for beauty, but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let … ▶292DeathTime
Naomi WolfWe should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their ow… ▶292DeathLifeReading
Naomi Wolf“Healthy and “diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of sub… ▶347HumanityReading
Naomi WolfThe Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her beauty. ✨ Naomi Wolf (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage314Truth
Naomi WolfThe 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 … ▶292Reflection
Naomi WolfProtesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. ✨ How to Occupy the moral and political high ground by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com… ▶348Politics
Naomi Wolf'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 kee… ▶282Politics
Naomi WolfAs women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. ✨ Naomi Wolf (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage315Politics
Naomi WolfWhat editors are obliged to appear to say that ✨ Naomi Wolf (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage348Time
