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 WolfWestern women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi WolfMaybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us
Naomi WolfThe woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.
Naomi WolfWhen [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiarโ-who hands him the paper every morning.
Naomi Wolf