Naomi Wolf Quotes

• When women breached the power structure in the 1980s…two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

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• 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.

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

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  Topics in Beauty

• It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.

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  Tags in Freedom

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self-Esteem

• I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women’s appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

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  Tags in Right

• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

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  Tags in Women

• No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Being A Woman, Myths, Independent Women

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

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• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

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• 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.

  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 keeps male dominance intact.

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  Topics in Politics

• 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

  Topics in Suffering

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Birth:	12th November, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Political Consultant

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