Frases de Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf é uma escritora feminista estadunidense.

✵ 12. Novembro 1962
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“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”

Naomi Wolf livro The Beauty Myth

Fonte: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 157
Contexto: The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts estranged as if they were not part of their bodies, their thighs crossed self-consciously, learning how to leave their bodies and watch them from the outside. Since their bodies are seen from the point of view of strangeness and desire, it is no wonder that what should be familiar, felt to be whole, becomes estranged and divided into parts. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys; that takes up the space that should be devoted to finding out about what they are wanting, and reading and writing about it, seeking it and getting it.

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

Naomi Wolf livro The Beauty Myth

Fonte: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45

“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”

Naomi Wolf livro The Beauty Myth

Fonte: Chapter 1 : 'The Beauty Myth', p. 14

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”

Naomi Wolf livro The Beauty Myth

Fonte: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”

Naomi Wolf livro The Beauty Myth

Fonte: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 8 : 'Beyond the Beauty Myth', p. 290

“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.”

The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society (22 October 2011), Blog Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/occupy-wall-street-bloomberg-free-speech-right-to-disruption-_b_1026535.html at huffingtonpost.com