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Naomi Wolf Quotes

There’s a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her Picture Quote #1

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that Picture Quote #1

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As soon as a woman’s primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women Picture Quote #1

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate Picture Quote #1

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts Picture Quote #1

Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we’ve got to get it that the moral high ground doesn’t get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn’t do it. Being right doesn’t do it. Hardball politics does it... and a political strategy Picture Quote #1

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark Picture Quote #1

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Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption Picture Quote #1

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women Picture Quote #1

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially Picture Quote #1

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There’s a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 (Naomi Wolf Quotes) She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that (Naomi Wolf Quotes) What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? (Naomi Wolf Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Naomi Wolf Quotes) As soon as a woman’s primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women (Naomi Wolf Quotes) The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate (Naomi Wolf Quotes) For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we’ve got to get it that the moral high ground doesn’t get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn’t do it. Being right doesn’t do it. Hardball politics does it... and a political strategy (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption (Naomi Wolf Quotes) We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women (Naomi Wolf Quotes) Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially (Naomi Wolf Quotes)

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