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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."

"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.


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NAOMI WOLF A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is real...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alte...
NAOMI KLEIN The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap ...
NAOMI WOLF A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about...
NAOMI WOLF The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w...
NAOMI WOLF Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be bl...
NAOMI WOLF What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and c...
NAOMI WOLF Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevent...
NAOMI WOLF We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were...
NAOMI WOLF The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
NAOMI WOLF Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never exper...
NAOMI WOLF Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the...
NAOMI WOLF The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
NAOMI WOLF A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for he...
NAOMI WOLF What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotage...
NAOMI WOLF Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provoke...
NAOMI WOLF Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalit...
NAOMI WOLF Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled ...
NAOMI WOLF Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
NAOMI WOLF Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can
NAOMI ALDERMAN Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain...
NAOMI WOLF To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
NAOMI WOLF Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradit...
NAOMI GOODMAN The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.
NAOMI KLEIN A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made wi...
NAOMI KLEIN The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
NAOMI CAMPBELL My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Do...
NAOMI KLEIN The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementar...
NAOMI JUDD In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell...
NAOMI WOLF I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are...
NAOMI JUDD Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tab...
NAOMI WOLF Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical th...
NAOMI WOLF As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a ...
NAOMI WOLF For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'war...
NAOMI WOLF Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
NAOMI JUDD Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag...
NAOMI WATTS Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get t...
NAOMI KLEIN When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the inter...
NAOMI KLEIN If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we ...
NAOMI KLEIN A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to expla...
NAOMI KLEIN Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at...
NAOMI KLEIN When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all th...
NAOMI KLEIN That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish ...
NAOMI KLEIN Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find anot...
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