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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?


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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 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 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