Quotes by Naomi Wolf

About Naomi Wolf:

Naomi R. Wolf is an American author and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. With the publication of the 1991 bestselling book The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokeswoman of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement. In 2007, she published the bestselling book The End of America.
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'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 last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

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In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the...

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The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of female sexual experience seem normal and desirable. The capacity for orgasm in w...

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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.

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We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during w...

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Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

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Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

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Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner’s interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman’s destructive rival for her man’s sexual capabilities.

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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

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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 ...

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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

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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.

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Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the un...

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

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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

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

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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.

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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.

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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

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Author Bio

  • NameNaomi Wolf
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornNovember 12, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitical Writer; Activist; Political Adviser
  • WorksThe Beauty Myth; The End Of America: Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot