What editors are obliged to appear to say that by Naomi Wolf

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Naomi Wolf

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The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

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The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

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We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.

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Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

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The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enoug... by Naomi Wolf

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as m... by Naomi Wolf

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

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It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are. by Naomi Wolf

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has beco... by Naomi Wolf

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

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Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.

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Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

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What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

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The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

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The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

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When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

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I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their... by Naomi Wolf

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

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When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I am doing it with a concrete footnoted historical context.

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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.

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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.

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