Naomi R. Wolf (b.1962) is an American liberal progressive feminist author and journalist. She was a political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Born to a Jewish family in San Francisco, Wolf studied at Yale and was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford.
Wolf is a leading spokesperson of “third-wave feminism,” in which women are no longer seen as victims of a male-dominated society but as equals empowered by choice and opportunity.
Wolf’s books include The Beauty Myth (1991; about the exploitation of women by the beauty and fashion industries,) Fire with Fire (1993; about female empowerment,) Promiscuities (1997; about female adolescent sexuality,) and Misconceptions (2001; about childbirth and motherhood.)
Her later books include The End of America (2007,) Give Me Liberty (2008,) and Vagina: A New Biography (2012.) She has written for media outlets such as The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post.
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
—Naomi Wolf
Topics: Diet
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
—Naomi Wolf
Topics: Women
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
—Naomi Wolf
Topics: Beauty
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
Topics: Pain
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