"To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women."

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Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.139, Random House

Naomi Wolf

#Men Quotes #Long Quotes #Naked Quotes

“All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.”
“I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.”
“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.”
“I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.”
“Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.”
“So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.”
“According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.”
“There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.”

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