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What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
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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Become goddesses of disobedience.
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