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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi Wolf
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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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