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I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

Naomi Wolf

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
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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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What editors are obliged to appear to say that
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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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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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A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
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Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.
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I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.
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Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
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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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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
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We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.
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From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.
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What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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Women who love themselves are threatening but men who love real women, more so.
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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty fixes that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
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