Naomi Wolf Quotes
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.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.
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I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
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Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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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.
