Women's Bodies Quotes - Page 2

• Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

  Amber Benson

  Boys, Years, Nerd

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• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Women, Heart

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• Not everyone is there to get an abortion. Your body is like a car that has needs and women's bodies constantly need a level of care that men don't.

  Jen Kirkman

  Men, Car, Abortion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Men, Water

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• I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

  Malin Akerman

  Beautiful, Body, Problem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

  David Hasselhoff

  Funny, Real, Hero

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• She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!

  John Green

  Sorry, Alaska, Whales

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

  Jo Nesbo

  Real, Cancer, Exercise

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• All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

  Vera Wang

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

  Adrienne Rich

  Men, Body, Revolutionary

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

  Rachel Bilson

  Men, Needs, Body

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• Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Men, Body, Use

  "Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.

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• Their [Republicans] approach to a woman's body is the same as their approach to the economy: they have no idea how it works, but they're eager to screw with it anyway.

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Body, Republican

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• Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'

  Jay Leno

  Upset, Hey, Body

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• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  Jack McDevitt

  Sorry, Integrity, Character

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2001.

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• On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

  Boy George

  Gay, Men, Culture

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• I don't recommend surgery at all. Women's bodies are beautiful as they are, and I've had a love/hate relationship with my breasts my whole life.

  Pamela Anderson

  Beautiful, Hate, Body

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• All dreams of the soul
  End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.76

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• A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.

  Fay Weldon

  Baby, Heart, Giving

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• Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Inspirational, Generations, Body

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• Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

  Louise Mensch

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

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• Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

  Francisco Costa

  Sexy, Moving, Suggestions

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• I’m a gay man in a woman’s body.

  Victoria Beckham

  Gay, Men, Body

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to please men with my body; I’m here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman’s body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Men, World, Body

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• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

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