Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
- -
Naomi Wolf
0

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Par Naomi Wolf

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Par Naomi Wolf

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Par Naomi Wolf

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Par Naomi Wolf

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Par Naomi Wolf

She may resent

Par Naomi Wolf

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.

Par Naomi Wolf

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.

Par Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Par Naomi Wolf

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want

Par Naomi Wolf

Health makes good propaganda.

Par Naomi Wolf

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Par Naomi Wolf

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Par Naomi Wolf

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

Par Naomi Wolf

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Par Naomi Wolf
Thème