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At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
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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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Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.
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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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If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.
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For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.
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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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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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What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.
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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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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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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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The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.
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The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.
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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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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.
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Become goddesses of disobedience.
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We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope and empowerment and radical chutzpah that the founding generation had and intended us to have.
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We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
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