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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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Naomi Wolf
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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San Francisco County
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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I'm not worried that tomorrow there will be a battalion outside your Greenwich Village apartment. I'm worried about things like the McCain Liberman bill that would define enemy belligerents so loosely it would include Americans, which is just like Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini.
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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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I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.
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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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a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.
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It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
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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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