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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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Naomi Wolf
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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San Francisco County
California
Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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Women who love themselves are threatening but men who love real women, more so.
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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
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