Naomi Wolf Quotes (10 Quotes)


    The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

    The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.

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

    No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

    '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.


    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.

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

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

    Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

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


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