Naomi Wolf Quotes - Page 6

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• 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

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• Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something you pay money for. Think of being outside of what you have and own, it always has to be receiving a difference.

  Naomi Wolf

  Good Life, Mean, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Even though I'm appalled when racism surfaces, and I personally don't agree with certain policy solutions and a lot of what they believe in, as someone who is very concerned about reinvigorating democracy the Tea Parties are an answer to what I asked for.

  Naomi Wolf

  Party, Believe, Racism

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Views, Patriot, Passing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Motivation, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

  Naomi Wolf

  Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

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

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• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Team, Focus, Events

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• What editors are obliged to appear to say that

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Editors, Obliged

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

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• In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

  Naomi Wolf

  Good Night, Goodnight, Good Luck

  "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

  Naomi Wolf

  Media, Mainstream, Should

  "How to Occupy the moral and political high ground" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  Naomi Wolf

  Baby, War, Feminist

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• When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

  Naomi Wolf

  Two, Economy, Currency

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.2 'Work'.

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• I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Differences, Opinion, Debate

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• What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  Naomi Wolf

  Dream, Expansion, United States

  "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Average, America

  "Q&A with Naomi Wolf: equal pay for women" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2012.

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

  Naomi Wolf

  Risk, Documentary Films, Documentaries

  "Smugglers of Truth". www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2009.

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• 'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

  Naomi Wolf

  America, Details, Would Be

  "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Winning, Generations

  Naomi Wolf (2008). “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  Naomi Wolf

  Watches, Pace, Way

  "Naomi Wolf v Alan Wolfe, round two". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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• The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usual, Firsts, Quiet

  "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2011.

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• In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Drawing, Issues, Leader

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