Naomi Wolf Quotes

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.

Naomi Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1962

Topics

WomenBattleGoddessFantasyGentle

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

NeverSocialConstraintsFelt

Even if I didn't know Eric, I still think he would be my celebrity crush. He's so freakin' gorgeous.

Jessie James Decker

ThinkKnowCelebrityCrushGorgeous

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

CompetitionChoiceStudentStudy

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

Andre Braugher

EducationNatureBestMeListening

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Max Weber

GoodAgeTimeOld AgeThinkHead

I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.

Anna Faris

UncertaintyEverythingHeartbreak

I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Ann McKee

BrainRunDifferentNumberBanks

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Jeff Tweedy

NatureWritingEasyYouSometimes

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

Jeb Bush

SimpleProblemsSolutionsComplex

I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world.

Amir Khan

WorldWhiteKnowFighterEnglish

Even if you don't like me, you know me because I'm just in your face.

Stormzy

MeFaceYouKnowBecauseJust

John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

CharacterMeDirectionThinkPerson

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