Naomi Wolf Quotes

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

Naomi Wolf

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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • France
  • Southern
  • Invasion

• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Experience
  • Words
  • You

• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Artist
  • Journalist
  • Rather

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Admire
  • Considered

• Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Personality

• I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Work

• I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home, or anywhere you go is just knowing your value.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Value

• I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Women
  • Age
  • Fighting

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power