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.
Become goddesses of disobedience. - Naomi Wolf
Become goddesses of disobedience.
- 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 las… - 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 las…
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AN… - Naomi Wolf
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AN…
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… - Naomi Wolf
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…
Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically,… - Naomi Wolf
Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically,…
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. - Naomi Wolf
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. - Naomi Wolf
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision. - Naomi Wolf
The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking. - Naomi Wolf
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.
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