Latest Naomi Wolf Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

  Naomi Wolf

  Suicidal, People, Want

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• Al Gore was a good guy and he wanted to give flextime to American women who are trying to balance work and family, but he couldn't because the business interests are organized, and they don't want it to happen.

  Naomi Wolf

  Giving, Guy, Trying

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• I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to be this downer Cassandra person in saying that without dismantling this horrific legislative apparatus that has basically given George W. Bush dictatorial power, the spirit of America is not enough. We have to have that spirit, but we have to have tactics and strategies and a movement and a victory.

  Naomi Wolf

  Believe, Winning, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.

  Naomi Wolf

  Two, Evil, Voting

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• Why am I voting for Obama? Obama, of all the candidates, is the only one of the major candidates - even more than Hillary Clinton, when they were running against each other - to speak in favor of the defense of the Constitution and the separation of powers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Running, Voting, Defense

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• Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

  Naomi Wolf

  People, Police, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Home, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Believe, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's not that much fun to be an activist. That's partly by design. They are sterile protests and anonymous e-mail activism - not the kind of thing where people fall in love, form friendships for life, and see the change they make right in front of them. I've seen that, when people start to experience doing these things together and the power that it has.

  Naomi Wolf

  Falling In Love, Fun, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The '60s and '70s - I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury - people around me were going to school by day and all night long having these incredibly exciting meetings, mobilizing, marching, drafting statements. It was very intoxicating. It was very energizing. We've really forgotten a lot of those skills. Or they haven't been transmitted. It's useful to the people controlling us to have those skills not be available.

  Naomi Wolf

  School, Night, Skills

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• It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, People, Police

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• If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope and empowerment and radical chutzpah that the founding generation had and intended us to have.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, People, Empowerment

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, People, Lazy

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• I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Journey, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

  Naomi Wolf

  Military, Leader, Wells

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• If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.

  Naomi Wolf

  United States, World, Whole

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• When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

  Naomi Wolf

  Army, Leader, Police

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• There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our rights are and what our system is and what our core principles are. And one of them since 1807 has been this right that the founding generation put in place, to make sure that military troops would never, ever, ever be deployed in the United States of America for civilian policing.

  Naomi Wolf

  Military, Years, America

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• Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Rooms, Intensity

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• 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

• I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Empowering, Mind, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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

• The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to say well, these are the angry young men, these are the hippies, these are the boomers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hippie, Men, Media

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com