Advertisers are the West’s courteous censors.
– Naomi Wolf
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- Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you. – Kris Kidd
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
- Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. – David Cronenberg
- I like your anger,’ the Hag said mildly. ‘I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting. – Juliet Marillier
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. – Malcolm X
- Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait. – Richelle E Goodrich
- You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all. – Naomi Wolf
- Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. – Naomi Wolf
- The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. – Naomi Wolf
- She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. – Naomi Wolf
- What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? – Naomi Wolf
- A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. – Naomi Wolf
- Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it. – Naomi Wolf
- 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
- As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement. – Naomi Wolf
- If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. – Naomi Wolf
- Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. – Naomi Wolf
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf
- Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. – Naomi Wolf
- Are women beautiful or aren’t we? – Naomi Wolf
- It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom. – Naomi Wolf
- What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. – Naomi Wolf
- Health makes good propaganda. – Naomi Wolf
- To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. – Naomi Wolf
- The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he – Walter Bower
- She is so tiresome. -˜Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both! – Melika Dannese Lux
- Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science. – Rachel Naomi Remen
- I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on. – Naomi Novik
- Temeraire said, ‘It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects! – Naomi Novik
- If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. – Rachel Naomi Remen
- Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. – Naomi Klein
- Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. – Naomi Novik
- Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain. – Rachel Naomi Remen
- When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. – Rachel Naomi Remen
- Women!- he muttered. -œCan’t live with ’em, can’t escape even by killing ’em. – Naomi Kramer
- Naomi knew she should pray… Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam. – Heather Blanton
- And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding? – Naomi Novik
- Everything I do is for her, for Fallon. – Soraya Naomi
- You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,- he said finally. -œAnd inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing – Naomi Novik
- Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own. – Soraya Naomi