Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.


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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