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Naomi Wolf Quotes

Naomi Wolf quotes

American Author November 12, 1962

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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 subjecting them to social control. Naomi Wolf
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them..."
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes..."
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to..."
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. Naomi Wolf
Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. Naomi Wolf
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "It has been said that each generation must win its own..."
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy 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 AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. Naomi Wolf
It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom. Naomi Wolf
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning. Naomi Wolf

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