Naomi Wolf Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

  Naomi Wolf

  Bad Ass, Mad, Political

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

• To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and having autonomy and dignity. It's not pitting one gender against another, it's not saying anything is better, it's just clearing away injustice.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fighting, Rights, Democracy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Real, Men

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

• We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

  Naomi Wolf

  Political, Feminism, Advancement

  The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1990)

• 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

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