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Letter "N" » Naomi Wolf Quotes
«Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.»
«To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.»
«No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society»
Author: Naomi Wolf
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About:
Being a Woman,
Myths,
Society,
Women
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Keywords:
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individualized,
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individualizing,
myth,
observations,
undermine,
undermined,
undermines,
undermining
«Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.»
«'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.»
«Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.»
«Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.»