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" It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic. "
Naomi Wolf
Smart
Debate
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" Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. "
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" Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. "
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" We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society. "
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" 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.' "
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" To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. "
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Thin
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" What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often? "
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" In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs. "
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Start
Face
" In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' "
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Age
" The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. "
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" For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts. "
Naomi Wolf
Change
Together
Power
" It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies. "
Naomi Wolf
Change
Oil
Ignorance
" Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. "
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China
1920s
American
" Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.' "
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Real
Saying
" 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. "
Naomi Wolf
You
Believe
Get
" From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.' "
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Career
Vacation
Women
" The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. "
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" My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. "
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" As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children. "
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Children
Community
Society
" Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. "
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Them
Should
" A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom. "
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Future
Organization
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" Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. "
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Thinking
Patience
Obstacles
" Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right. "
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You
Spiritual
World
" In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. "
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Freedom
Web
Right
" The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment. "
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Personality
Lose
" When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. "
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Would
Women
World
" For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse. "
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Policy
Perspective
" If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.' "
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You
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Way
" What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. "
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Waves
American
American Dream
" How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? "
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Dollar
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