Naomi Wolf citáty
Naomi Wolf
Datum narození: 12. listopad 1962
Naomi Wolfová je americká spisovatelka, intelektuálka a politická konzultantka. Hlásí se k feminismu a prosazuje tzv. progresivní politiku. Ve své poslední publikaci stále více poukazuje na procesy vedoucí k utlačování demokracie ve Spojených státech amerických.
Podobní autoři
Sarah Churchwellová1
literární vědkyně
Veronica Roth9
americká autorka
Mary McCarthy3
americká spisovatelka
Edna Ferber2
spisovatelka, dramatička
Alyson Richman10
americká spisovatelkaBetty MacDonald6
spisovatelka
Elizabeth Stone1
americká spisovatelka
Maggie Stiefvater7
americká spisovatelka
Teal Swan51
americká duchovní učitelkaCitáty Naomi Wolf
„What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.“
— Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Context: 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.
Chapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 157
„A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.“
— Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 6 : 'Hunger', p. 187
„Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.“
— Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45
„The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.“
— Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 1 : 'The Beauty Myth', p. 14
„The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.“
— Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 222
„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, kniha The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254
