Naomi Wolf

The trance stat

Relaxing allows for female arousal.

Stress can and often does stop the uterus from contracting in childbirth; it can stop the birth canal from

The baby is biochemically creating its mother’s love and feelings of attachment.

There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today’s power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

If it seems odd that an anxiety, such as one about breast shape, for example, can arise and flourish among millions of women at once, think about how powerful sexual imagery is.