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Naomi Wolf Quotes

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children Picture Quote #1

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists’ job in a free society Picture Quote #1

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women’s advancement Picture Quote #1

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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality Picture Quote #1

A culture fixated 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 Picture Quote #1

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints Picture Quote #1

I’m a big believer in debate and difference of opinion Picture Quote #1

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them Picture Quote #1

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance Picture Quote #1

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Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so Picture Quote #1

What editors are obliged to appear to say that Picture Quote #1

Become goddesses of disobedience Picture Quote #1

It’s human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are Picture Quote #1

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women’s advancement: The beauty myth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward Picture Quote #1

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs Picture Quote #1

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic Picture Quote #1

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do Picture Quote #1

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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war Picture Quote #1

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property Picture Quote #1

The 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 press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted Picture Quote #1

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children. (Naomi Wolf Quotes) We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists’ job in a free society. (Naomi Wolf Quotes) For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts. (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 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. (Naomi Wolf Quotes) We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women’s advancement. (Naomi Wolf Quotes) To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality (Naomi Wolf Quotes) A culture fixated 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 Quotes) Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints (Naomi Wolf Quotes) I’m a big believer in debate and difference of opinion (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them (Naomi Wolf Quotes) The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so (Naomi Wolf Quotes) What editors are obliged to appear to say that (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Become goddesses of disobedience (Naomi Wolf Quotes) It’s human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 Quotes) We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women’s advancement: The beauty myth (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 (Naomi Wolf Quotes) A white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward (Naomi Wolf Quotes) In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs (Naomi Wolf Quotes) It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic (Naomi Wolf Quotes) My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do (Naomi Wolf Quotes) When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property (Naomi Wolf Quotes) The 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 press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted (Naomi Wolf Quotes) A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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