Naomi Wolf Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.”

“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.”

“It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.”

“The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.”

“As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.”

“In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.”

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

“It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.”

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

“Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.”