Naomi Wolf

American feminist and journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1962 · age 64 · Birthday today

Naomi Rebekah Wolf is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist. After the 1991 publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, Wolf became a prominent figure in the third wave of the feminist movement. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised her work.

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2023“It was the doctors in pre-Nazi Germany in the early thirties who were co-opted by the National Socialists and sent to do exactly what we're seeing kind of replaying now.”In their words9 May 2023The Jewish ChronicleRead the whole statement

2011“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.”In their words22 October 2011The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society (22 October 2011), Blog Post at huffingtonpost.comRead the whole statement

2007“[[w: Alex Cohen|[Alex] Cohen]]: There's never a line in this book that says George W.”In their words19 November 2007NPRRead the whole statement

1991“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”In their wordsChapter 1 : 'The Beauty Myth', p. 14Read the whole statement

“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.”In their wordsChapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 139Read the whole statement

“Just as 'beauty' is not related to sex, neither is it related to love. Even having it does not bestow love on a woman, though the beauty myth claims that it must.”In their wordsChapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 172Read the whole statement

1985Rhodes ScholarshipAward1962Born12 November 1962

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Wolf speaking at Brooklyn Law School, January 29, 2009

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It was amazing to go to Belfast, which does not yet have 5G, and feel the earth, sky, air, human experience, feel the way it did in the 1970s.
5 July 2019 · The Sunday Times, Own words
JS [Justine Sharrock]: How is your comparison of Obama to Hitler any different from someone at a Tea Party holding up a placard of Obama with a Hitler mustache?
30 March 2010 · The New Republic, Own words
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
1991 · Chapter 2 : 'Work', p. 45, Own words

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Rhodes Scholarship1985

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Others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. In the 1990s, Wolf was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

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