Naomi Wolf Quotes About Ideology

Quotes about: Ideology

• I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

  Naomi Wolf

  Attitude, Choices, Body

• Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Teaching

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Justice, Feminist

• I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Feminism

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

  Naomi Wolf

  Desire, Female, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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