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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
– Naomi Wolf

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  2. Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. – Naomi Wolf
  3. 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
  4. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement. – Naomi Wolf
  5. Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf
  6. Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you. – Kris Kidd
  7. A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin – Benny Bellamacina
  8. What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? – Naomi Wolf
  9. If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. – Naomi Wolf
  10. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. – Naomi Wolf
  11. Are women beautiful or aren’t we? – Naomi Wolf
  12. Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment. – Steven Magee
  13. We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning. – Bryant McGill
  14. 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
  15. The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. – Naomi Wolf
  16. She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her. – Naomi Wolf
  17. A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. – Naomi Wolf
  18. Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it. – Naomi Wolf
  19. 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
  20. Advertisers are the West’s courteous censors. – Naomi Wolf
  21. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. – Naomi Wolf
  22. Health makes good propaganda. – Naomi Wolf
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  24. There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish -˜my’ and go after [help to] people. – Dada Bhagwan
  25. Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone…A thirst which one cannot relinquish – Seema Gupta
  26. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
  27. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him. – Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
  30. Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway. – Sara Secora
  31. The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he – Walter Bower
  32. 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
  33. Reagan’s failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity. – Scott Farris
  34. You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
  35. Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
  36. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  37. Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love. – Jane Yolen
  38. God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it’s this, maybe it’s that. Ask, woman. Ask. – Sophie Page
  39. Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
  40. When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten

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