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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 990cd48 | Are women beautiful or aren't we? | females | Naomi Wolf | |
| c8145de | Lad os vaere skamlose. Gradige. Opsoge fornojelser. Undga smerte. Klaede os, spise og drikke, som vi har lyst til. Vaere tolerante over for andre kvinders valg. Vaelge den form for sex, vi har lyst til og kaempe hardt mod den form for sex, vi ikke har lyst til. Finde vore egne grunde til at handle, som vi gor. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 60d4dbf | While we cannot directly affect the images, we can drain them of their power. We can turn away from them, look directly at one another, and find alternative images of beauty in a female subculture; seek out the plays, music, films that illuminate women in three dimensions; find the biographies of women, the women's history, the heroines that in each generation are submerged from view; fill in the terrible, 'beautiful' blanks. We can lift ou.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 06bff83 | Beauty" is not universal or changeless, though the West pretends that all ideals of female beauty stem from one Platonic Ideal Woman; the Maori admire a fat vulva, and the Padung, droopy breasts." | beauty western-ideals | Naomi Wolf | |
| cb5bd34 | Nor has the beauty myth always been this way. Though the pairing of the older rich men with young, "beautiful" women is taken to be somehow inevitable, in the matriarchal Goddess religions that dominated the Mediterranean from about 25,000 B.C.E. to about 700 B.C.E., the situation was reversed:" | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 391a975 | Obviamente sob o ponto de vista fisico os homens nao envelhecem melhor. Eles so envelhecem melhor em termos de seu status social. Esse nosso erro de percepcao deriva do fato de nossos olhos estarem treinados para ver o tempo no rosto das mulheres como um defeito enquanto no dos homens ele indica personalidade. Se a principal funcao deles fosse decorativa e a adolescencia masculina fosse considerada o apogeu de seu valor, a aparencia de um ".. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| c56a519 | The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance. Competition between women has been made part of the myth so that women will be divided from one another. Youth and (until recently) virginity have been "beautiful" in women since they stand for experiential and sexual ignorance. .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| cd8cc64 | Most of our assumptions about the way women have always thought about "beauty" date from no earlier than the 1830s, when the cult of domesticity was first consolidated and the beauty index invented." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 9044011 | This is not a conspiracy theory; it doesn't have to be. Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them "vital lies," and psychologist Daniel Goleman describes them working the same way on the social level that they do within families: "The collusion is maintained by directing attention away from the fearsome fact, or by repackaging its meaning in an acceptable format.".. | ibsen vital-lies | Naomi Wolf | |
| 57f0a90 | Una consecuencia del amor propio femenino es que la mujer crece convencida de su valor social. Si le gusta su feminidad, luchara por sus derechos. NAOMI WOLF | Leticia Dolera | ||
| d01c5c8 | A man's right to confer judgment on any woman's beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8e40a2a | Of course, men don't age any better physically. They age better only in terms of social status. We misperceive in this way since our eyes are trained to see time as a flaw on women's faces where it is a mark of character on men's. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| fdc9d43 | Let's say a man really loves a woman; he sees her as his equal, his ally, his colleague; but she enters this other realm and becomes unfathomable. In the krypton spotlight, which he doesn't even see, she falls ill, out of his caste, and turns into an untouchable. He may know her as confident; she stands on the bathroom scale and sinks into a keening of self-abuse. He knows her as mature; she comes home with a failed haircut, weeping from a .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 4619358 | When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For many women, the body appears to grow beautiful and erotic as they grow to like the person in it. The actual body, the smell, the feel, the voice and movement, becomes charged with heat through the desirable person who animates it. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| de5bf53 | Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires as men, as avid for sexual fulfilment and power as men, but held back by the twin myths of good-girlism and sentimental sisterhood. Though she is perhaps too sanguine about women quickly overcoming their fear of power, Wolf fills me with hope because I see her analysis as having shattered the false categories that im.. | Erica Jong | ||
| 2a5e408 | sexual response is connected to and in turn generates a larger sense of pleasure, meaning, and interest in the world, | Naomi Wolf | ||
| f96fd98 | If a woman's sexual sense of self has centered on pain as far back as the record goes, who is she without it? If suffering is beauty and beauty is love, she cannot be sure she will be loved if she does not suffer. It is hard, because of such conditioning, to envisage a female body free of pain and still desirable. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| f653281 | Os homens sao estimulados visualmente pelo corpo feminino e sao menos impressionaveis pela personalidade da mulher porque desde cedo sao treinados para reagir assim, enquanto as mulheres sao menos estimuladas em termos visuais e mais em termos emocionais por ser este o treinamento que recebem. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| a587d77 | Quando a romancista Margaret Atwood perguntou a mulheres o que elas mais temiam dos homens, elas responderam que tinham medo que eles as matassem. Quando fez a mesma pergunta aos homens com relacao as mulheres, eles responderam que tinham medo que elas rissem deles. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| d6b1e3e | There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad w.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6c8d66a | Barbie taught us a lot--sometimes more than we wanted to know. Her posture showed us that being sexual meant being immobile. It meant: walk on your toes, bust out, limbs rigid. Barbie would flash the white of her teeth, cock her head, swivel on her torso, half raise her smooth arm, but she could say nothing. For Barbie had no conceivable character or inner life. Barbie's breasts and clothes seemed to blunt her personality. In Barbie's life,.. | promiscuities | Naomi Wolf | |
| 77ba9cf | It is not surprising that in the female narrative [of schizophrenics] the hectoring spirit...who jeers, judges, commands and controls...is almost invariably male. He delivers the running critique of appearance and performance that the woman has grown up with as part of her stream of consciousness. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 15ffcab | A woman enters a department store from the street, looking no doubt very mortal, her hair windblown, her own face visible. To reach the cosmetics counter, she must pass a deliberately disorienting prism of mirrors, lights, and scents that combine to submit her to the "sensory overload" used by hypnotists and cults to encourage suggestibility. On either side of her are ranks of angels--seraphim and cherubim--the "perfect" faces of the models.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 084006c | Anorexics are sure they are embarked on a quest that no one else can understand by looking at them. Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| f6d7de6 | Religious beliefs had little or no effect on a man's sexual pleasure, but could slice as powerfully as the circumcision knife into a woman's enjoyment, undermining with guilt and shame any pleasure she might otherwise experience. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 5b006bd | The soulless blood-rush of synthesized climax over a repetitive backbeat made disco the perfect music by which to score with a stranger. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8ced81c | Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 535dab8 | A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 2d51681 | The harm is apparent in the way such imagery represses female sexuality and lowers women's sexual self-esteem by casting sex as locked in a chastity belt to which "beauty" is the only key." | Naomi Wolf | ||
| fb9faf2 | Little girls for lack of anything better learn from what comes to hand. They do not lack facts; they lack a positive sexual culture: novels and poetry, film and jokes and rock and roll, written not to sell but to explore and communicate and celebrate, as the best male erotic culture is written. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| b387964 | If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. As long as women are asked to bring a self-denying mentality to the communal table, it will never be round, men and women seated together; but the same traditional hierarchical dais, with a folding table for women at the foot. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 92ec67d | In studies of body self-perception, women regularly overestimate their body size; in a study of economic self-perception, they regularly underestimate their business expenses. The point is that the two misperceptions are causally related. By valuing women's skills at artificially low levels and tying their physical value into the workplace, the market protects its pool of cheap female labor. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 5556029 | As qualidades que um determinado periodo considera belas nas mulheres sao apenas simbolos do comportamento feminino que aquele periodo julga ser desejavel. O mito da beleza de fato sempre determina o comportamento, nao a aparencia. A competicao entre as mulheres foi incorporada ao mito para promover a divisao entre elas. A juventude e (ate recentemente) a virgindade sao "belas" nas mulheres por representarem a ignorancia sexual e a falta de.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| df7dae2 | O mito da beleza gera nas mulheres uma reducao de amor-proprio, com o resultado de altos lucros para as empresas. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 47e10fa | Todos os sistemas de trabalho que dependem da coacao de uma mao de obra, forcando-a a aceitar condicoes mas e remuneracao injusta, reconheceram a eficacia de manter essa mao de obra exausta para impedir que ela se rebele. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 4d132bc | Quando se atrai a atencao para as caracteristicas fisicas de lideres mulheres, essas lideres podem ser repudiadas por serem bonitas demais ou feias demais. O resultado liquido e impedir que as mulheres se identifiquem com as questoes. Se a mulher publica for estigmatizada como sendo "bonita", ela sera uma ameaca, uma rival, ou simplesmente uma pessoa nao muito seria. Se for criticada por ser "feia", qualquer mulher se arrisca a ser descrita.. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 5c0b6df | I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said. "I do not mind the deck." | Naomi Novik | ||
| b5f5406 | Jerzy was lying in their bed. It was a heavy clumsy thing made of small logs jointed together, but in this case that was all to the better. He had been tied hand and foot to the posts, and ropes were bound over his middle and under the whole bedframe. The ends of his toes were blackened and the nails were peeling off, and there were open sores across him where the ropes rubbed his body. He was pulling on them and making the noise, his tongu.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 84ca166 | The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben," -- | Naomi Novik | ||
| 97c1803 | And if you have been lying about it," Iskierka put in, having roused enough from her napping to follow the conversation, with slitted eyes, "you may be quite sure you will all be sorry: if anything has happened to my egg, I will burn everything between here and whatever house Napoleon is hiding in, and then I will set *that* on fire, too." | threats | Naomi Novik | |
| 7803811 | after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire's pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, and Laurence could not but think with satisfaction of the dragon's likely delight in the new book, which spoke in great detail about gemstones and their mining, despite his own complete lack of interest in the subject. | Naomi Novik | ||
| c2c40b8 | there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1dbb7a2 | Dragon intelligence was a mystery to men who made a study of the subject; he had no idea how much the dragon would hear or understand, but thought it better to avoid the risk of giving offense. | Naomi Novik | ||
| c91d181 | he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty. | Naomi Novik |