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To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

Naomi Wolf

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
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Conspiracy Theorist
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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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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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The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.
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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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