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

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
Author
Conspiracy Theorist
Feminist
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Political Adviser
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San Francisco County
California
Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.
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It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
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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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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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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.
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If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else to lead them, I think, God bless them. All of us should be doing that. The left should be doing that.
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What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of overpermiticisation - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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Women who love themselves are threatening but men who love real women, more so.
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Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
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From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
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I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
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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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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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Become goddesses of disobedience.
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The Tea Party is not monolithic. There is a battle between people who care about liberty and the Constitution and the Republican Establishment who is trying to take ownership of it and redirect it for its own purposes.
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