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„Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 157
Kontext: 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.

„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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45

„A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.“

—  Naomi Wolf

„A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.“

—  Naomi Wolf

„For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.“

—  Naomi Wolf

„The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: Chapter 1 : 'The Beauty Myth', p. 14

„She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254

„Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„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.“

—  Naomi Wolf

„What editors are obliged to appear to say thatwant from women is actually what theirwant from women.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 227

„The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.

Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth

„The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth