Quote by Naomi Wolf

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh se

Summary

This quote suggests that young women nowadays feel a sense of vulnerability when it comes to being judged by society. The potential for harsh judgments or expectations doesn't just affect their reputation, but also shakes the foundations of their moral values and beliefs. Just as they were beginning to explore and adapt to the changes brought about by the sexual revolution, they were confronted by societal pressures associated with the beauty industry. The quote implies that instead of being able to fully embrace freedom and sexual liberation, young women are constrained and objectified by idealized notions of beauty, which can act as a form of bondage.

Topics

Beauty Equality Advertising Culture Aging Double Standards Cosmetics Body Image Cosmetic Surgery Diet Industry Eating Disorders

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have be

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew.

Men Truth Order

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

Rebecca McKinsey

Life Death Imagination Survival Fantasy

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes,

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is abs

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools,

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of en

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.

WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for va

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.