Women's Bodies Quotes - Page 4

• The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.

  Christian Siriano

  Design, Dresses, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

  Linda Grant

  New Beginnings, Dresses, Body

  Linda Grant (2008). “The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

  Nan Goldin

  Hate, America, Healthy

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around you, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.

  Michael Kimmel

  Beautiful, Sexy, Jobs

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

  Jim Anderson

  Commitment, Grandmother, Love Is

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• The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Important, Desire, Cameras

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• I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Our Society

  "Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: ‘I Think Women’s Bodies Are A Battleground’" by Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2014.

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• People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Men, People, Body

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• Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Diversity, Males, Events

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books

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• Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

  Chris Abani

  Women, Thinking, Body

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• I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Long, Political

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

  Sia Furler

  Gay, Men, Body

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

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• A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

  Louise Erdrich

  Men, Body, Next

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• I loved dressing for my pregnant body. A pregnant woman's body is so beautiful. Towards the end, it does get harder, and then it became all about flats and comfortable maxi dresses.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Beautiful, Dresses, Doe

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• I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. The topless Interview shoot was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. I think women's bodies are a battleground, and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Long

  "Is Keira Knightley's topless photoshoot the best form of protest?" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2014.

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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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• 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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• By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.

  David Deida

  Healing, Home, Heart

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• There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

  Joan Collins

  Hollywood, Body, Today

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• Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

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• The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

  "Behind the burka" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2001.

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• I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Hands, Practice

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• The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.

  Debbie Allen

  Clothes, Body, Today

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