Frases de Naomi Wolf

“Una consecuencia del amor propio femenino es que la mujer crece convencida de su valor social. Su amor por su cuerpo es incondicional, como base de la identificación femenina. Si le gusta su feminidad, luchará por sus derechos.”

“El mercado de los cirujanos es imaginario, ya que no hay nada malo con las caras o cuerpos de los mujeres que el cambio social no vaya a curar; los cirujanos dependen para sus ingresos de deformar la autopercepción femenina y multiplicar el odio a sí mismas de las mujeres.”

“Una cultura obsesionada con la delgadez femenina no está obsesionada con la belleza de las mujeres, está obsesionada con la obediencia de éstas. La dieta es el sedante político más potente en la historia de las mujeres: una población tranquilamente loca es una población dócil.”

“La belleza es sólo visual, mas real en una película o en piedra que en tres dimensiones vivas.”

“Los hombres que leen pornografía de la belleza no lo hacen porque quieran una mujer que se parezca a aquello. La atracción de lo que están llevando a cabo es que no es una mujer, sino un espacio en forma de mujer de dos dimensiones. El atractivo del material no es la fantasía de que la modelo cobrará vida; es precisamente que no lo hará nunca. Si cobrase vida arruinaría la visión. No se trata de la vida real.”

“El sexo es rehén de la belleza y sus términos de rescate están grabados en las mentes de las niñas muy pronto y profundamente, con los más bellos instrumentos que los anunciantes o pornógrafos saben utilizar: la literatura, la poesía, la pintura y el cine.”

“Lo que los editores aseguran que los hombres quieren de las mujeres es en realidad lo que sus anunciantes quieren de las mujeres.”

“La cirugía estética procesa los cuerpos de las mujeres hechos a medida de las mujeres en cuerpos de mujeres hechos a medida de los hombres.”

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

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

“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.”

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”

“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. […] You are not taught—and it is a disgrace that you aren't—that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.”

“What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying a mutually suspicious set of insecurities. He does gain something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.”

“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children has begun to be shaped in response to cues that are no longer human. […] Today's children and young men and women have sexual identities that spiral around paper and celluloid phantoms: from Playboy to music videos to the blank female torsos in women’s magazines, features obscured and eyes extinguished, they are being imprinted with a sexuality that is mass-produced, deliberately dehumanizing and inhuman.”

“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.”

“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. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men’s sexual—and hence social—confidence while undermining that of women.”

“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. It is because 'beauty' is so hostile to love that many beautiful women are so cynical about men. […] The beautiful woman is excluded forever from the rewards and responsibilities of particular human love, for she cannot trust that any man will love her 'for herself alone.' A hellish doubt inheres in the myth that makes impersonal 'beauty' a prerequisite for love: Where does love go when beauty vanishes? And, if a woman cannot be loved 'for herself alone,' for whom is she being loved?”