Naomi Wolf

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

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

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

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

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

When 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 means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

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

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

...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 Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.