Women's Bodies Quotes - Page 5

• For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

  Marilyn French

  Real, Home, Men

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• A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fall, Dark, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream, Real, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Ideas, Bye

  Ms. magazine, p. 41, August 1972.

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• Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Government, Blood

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.' So he was partially right wasn't he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you're not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman's body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak.

  Phil Gingrey

  Baby, Horse, Couple

  "Phil Gingrey Defends Todd Akin’s Rape Comment: ‘He’s Partly Right’" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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