Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#change

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

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

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. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty

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

— Naomi Wolf

#sight #society #them #vanish #which

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

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #self-esteem

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. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#believes #get #hysteria #madness #other