“What is beautiful about her body does not belong to her, but to god. But what is ugly is hers alone, proof of her sin, worthy of any abuse.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Why do women care so much what the magazines say and show? They care because, though magazines are trivialized, they represent something very important: women's mass culture”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Low female self-esteem may have a sexual value to some individual men, but it has a financial value to all of society.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“To be credible about being harassed, in any case, a woman must look harassable, which destroys her credibility.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The working woman was told she had to think about 'beauty' in a way that undermined, step for step, the way she had begun to think as a result of the successes of the women's movement. This last vital lie applied to individual women's lives the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“They circulated a petition to pressure my employer (who was funded primarily by labor unions) into no-platforming me, a socialist feminist, because my vision of women’s liberation differed from Hugh Hefner’s.”— Meghan Murphy, spectator.us
“Jas Mitra: I like her. She's... she smart, the way she talks, she sounds like my father. That funny? Marcus: Your father gave up a civil servant job to help liberate the poor, she's fighting to speak French instead English. That's not much of an objective.”— John Ridley, Marcus, Babou Ceesay, imdb.com
“That’s what rap is, making the best out of a bad situation, brother.”— Donald Glover, Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles, Brian Tyree Henry, imdb.com
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals f…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals….”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“It is that power that is within you, by means of which you move and attain liberation. It is the soul, but what is it when you have placed the soul underneath your arm?”— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“This biological, evolutionary connection for women of possible ecstasy to emotional security has implications that cannot be overstressed. Relaxing allows for female arousal.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The female body reacts in the same way to “bad stress” whether the context is the birthing room or the university or the workplace. If the female brain senses that an environment is not safe, its stress response inhibits all the same organs and systems, regardless of setting.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feel…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, b…”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“We don't need to liberate ourselves from ourselves. We are all liberated deep inside us. Just noticing what you really are is enough.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com