Naomi Wolf Quotes - Page 2

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

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

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

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.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

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

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.

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

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