Women's Bodies Quotes - Page 5

• Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Children, People, Getting Older

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood". Interview with Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Men, Body, Women's Bodies

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• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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• I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

  Demi Lovato

  Curves, Body, Women's Bodies

  "11 Celebs Share How They Got Their Confidence and It’s So Inspiring". Slide 2, www.seventeen.com. September 21, 2017.

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• I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

  Tina Louise

  Fitness, Exercise, Body

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• Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Men, Essentials

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good

  Donatella Versace

  Sexy, Sensual, Body

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• The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at and marketed to us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.

  Ashley Judd

  Simple, Voice, Accomplishment

  "Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance". www.thedailybeast.com. April 09, 2012.

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• In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Morning, Writing, Brain

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren. And "estate" encompasses both legacy and landscape. Think of Emerson, referring to his son's death as "the loss of a beautiful estate."

  Monica Youn

  Beautiful, Son, Loss

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth.

  Gillian Flynn

  Body, Legs, Mouths

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

  Jen Kirkman

  Years, People, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

  Sandra Bartky

  Body, Hierarchy, Language

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Body, Advertising, Women's Bodies

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• Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Female, Body

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• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong Women, Taken, Heart

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• Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

  Germaine Greer

  Weight, Body, Efficiency

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• A black woman's body was never hers alone.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Black, Body, Black Women

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• The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

  Marilyn French

  Sex, Motivation, Real

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