Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our

 

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Naomi Wolf quotes in our collection. Naomi Wolf is known for saying 'Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.' as well as some of the following quotes.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Naomi Wolf

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

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