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Naomi Wolf

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Naomi Wolf

Birthname

Birthday: November 12, 1962

Educated At: New College, Yale University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Activist, Political Writer, Non-fiction Writer, Feminist, Journalist

Spouse: David Shipley

Total quotes: 3

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Tagged: beauty, thin, Weight, obedience

“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, A Woman's Worth

Tagged: Fashion, Photography, Misogyny, feminism, beauty

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Tagged: shallow, Attraction, inner beauty, looks, gender

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