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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
Activist
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San Francisco County
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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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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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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A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
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If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.
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I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
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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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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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I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.
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Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.
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I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.
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Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
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When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I am doing it with a concrete footnoted historical context.
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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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Become goddesses of disobedience.
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Women who love themselves are threatening but men who love real women, more so.
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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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