{
  "type": "author",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "name": "Naomi Wolf",
  "slug": "naomi-wolf",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf.md",
  "image": null,
  "quotes_count": 5,
  "books": [
    {
      "title": "The Beauty Myth",
      "slug": "the-beauty-myth",
      "quotes_count": 5,
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-classics/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth_978-00-9959-574-8.jpg",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth"
    }
  ],
  "recent_quotes": [
    {
      "id": "f3c0ef86-0ec4-4cea-acbb-b05ded85a8e7",
      "slug": "pain-is-real",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth/pain-is-real",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 254,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_Beauty_Myth_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "959dc5ab-e165-4723-8217-959c78deb99d",
      "slug": "just-as-beauty",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth/just-as-beauty",
      "text": "Just as 'beauty' is not related to sex, neither is it related to love. Even having it does not bestow love on a woman, though the beauty myth claims that it must. It is because 'beauty' is so hostile to love that many beautiful women are so cynical about men. […] The beautiful woman is excluded forever from the rewards and responsibilities of particular human love, for she cannot trust that any man will love her 'for herself alone.' A hellish doubt inheres in the myth that makes impersonal 'beauty' a prerequisite for love: Where does love go when beauty vanishes? And, if a woman cannot be loved 'for herself alone,' for whom is she being loved?",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 172,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "beauty",
          "slug": "beauty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_Beauty_Myth_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "5acbfb62-2590-4687-8e45-2133692e0a04",
      "slug": "the-beauty-myth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth/the-beauty-myth",
      "text": "The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 14,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "beauty",
          "slug": "beauty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_Beauty_Myth_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "2dced155-f19d-46ec-be9b-ab1d011e8b66",
      "slug": "what-becomes-of-a-man",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth/what-becomes-of-a-man",
      "text": "What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying a mutually suspicious set of insecurities. He does gain something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 174,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "beauty",
          "slug": "beauty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_Beauty_Myth_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "0c33c4fe-0988-4260-bbb2-94a769d25222",
      "slug": "you-do-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-wolf/the-beauty-myth/you-do-not",
      "text": "You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 290,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_Beauty_Myth_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:54"
    }
  ]
}