Naomi Wolf Quotes

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

Naomi Wolf

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Me

• There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Stinks

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Kids
  • Growth
  • Development

• You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • May
  • Hope

• The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Change
  • Government

• They are like any other team. I just try to do my job.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Job
  • Team
  • Try

• The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Lyrics

• When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Communication
  • Innovation
  • Conscience

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

  

  Naomi Wolf