Naomi Wolf

"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it."

"Naomi Wolf on "Fake Democracies" in Breaking the Set, at RT"

"The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one t…"

"Here's what we're not taught : Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught—and it is a dis…"

"For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexu…"

"The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts …"

"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative…"

"You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all."