Naomi Wolf Quotes

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk about owning your own body, being in your body, claiming yourself. I love it. When the world is in an uproar over whether women should have a choice or not when it comes to their own bodies, being tattooed is one of the most visible choices of all.

That's what you do when you have a really strict family and you rebel - you just go do whatever you can that would make their skin crawl. I wanted all the sexiest stuff I could find, and that was a very empowering moment for me, to use my money that I earned and buy things that no one else might see me wear - but I was going to wear them and feel powerful.

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.