The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the ...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Give...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the ...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the ...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Those who don’t love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware o...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN I did this because the person I loved wanted it.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN He realized that he was the first human being she'd ever seen. He was touched in a way that he hadn'...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN What if? What if things were different than the way you have seen them in the past?
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Those who don’t love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware ...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN It's a human relationship, not a relationship between an expert and a problem.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of ...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural t...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the han...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
NAOMI WATTS The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what i...
NAOMI WOLF In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sne...
NAOMI WOLF We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Wa...
NAOMI WOLF 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by ...
NAOMI WOLF From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for wom...
NAOMI WOLF It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, an...
NAOMI WOLF After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks l...
NAOMI WOLF For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to...
NAOMI WOLF What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives ...
NAOMI WOLF No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and ...
NAOMI WOLF The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual....
NAOMI WOLF In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and m...
NAOMI WOLF Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing u...
NAOMI WOLF The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu...
NAOMI WOLF What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated bet...
NAOMI WOLF Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves fu...
NAOMI WOLF It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening dem...
NAOMI WOLF Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the ...
NAOMI WOLF In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as ...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of the...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ...
NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma...
NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def...
NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve...
NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ...
NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has...
NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you...
NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec...
NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not...
NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
NAOMI WATTS My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails.
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
NAOMI SCOTT I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
NAOMI SCOTT Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I don't take vacations.
NAOMI JUDD I'm a darned good listener.
NAOMI JUDD Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
NAOMI JUDD I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like w...
NAOMI JUDD I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have...
NAOMI JUDD I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being d...
NAOMI JUDD I'm a communicator.
NAOMI JUDD You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
NAOMI JUDD We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
NAOMI JUDD When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, becau...
NAOMI JUDD I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
NAOMI JUDD It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever k...
NAOMI JUDD I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
NAOMI JUDD I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense...
NAOMI JUDD It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both t...
NAOMI JUDD Your body hears everything your mind says.
NAOMI JUDD I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
NAOMI JUDD They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number...
NAOMI JUDD A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
NAOMI JUDD There are many paths but only one journey.
NAOMI JUDD I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept w...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my mo...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not gett...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
NAOMI CAMPBELL Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
NAOMI CAMPBELL What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
NAOMI CAMPBELL The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
NAOMI CAMPBELL It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
NAOMI CAMPBELL My features are completely ethnic.
NAOMI CAMPBELL The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r...
AL NAOMI The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi...
AL NAOMI It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s...
AL NAOMI If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t...
AL NAOMI We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct...
AL NAOMI They did not contribute to the flooding of the city.
AL NAOMI It's not a significant decrease but it's not rising any more. It will still take a while to get the ...
AL NAOMI As I remember it, the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It...
AL NAOMI As I remember it the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It ...
AL NAOMI Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
NAOMI KLEIN Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
NAOMI WOLF A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is real...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I w...
NAOMI NOVIK 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 And listen to me: what you’ve done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don’t let So...
NAOMI NOVIK I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she’d put ...
NAOMI NOVIK No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly momen...
NAOMI NOVIK There's no kindness in offering false hope.
NAOMI NOVIK I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant t...
NAOMI NOVIK I wanted to rub handprints through his dust
NAOMI NOVIK But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. Sh...
NAOMI NOVIK We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.
NAOMI NOVIK I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
NAOMI NOVIK What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.
NAOMI NOVIK 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...
NAOMI CAMPBELL When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
NAOMI WATTS The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annu...
NAOMI KLEIN I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm C...
NAOMI KLEIN