Quotes by Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domestic — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. D — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has ga — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believ — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violen — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day l — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual tech — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to k — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they wi — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-m — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth