Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a…

Girls for me are like dolls, when you're finish playing with them, just leave them somewhere. Well, Real men don't play dolls.

— Franc

The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving…

— Laurie Simmons

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could…

— Grant Morrison

Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve…

— Anonymous

“It’s hard to feel alone when you’re me, sometimes. Sometimes even the houses crowd me in. I can imagine the people in them, still…

— Katherine Ewell

“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which they desire…

— Sarah Grimké

“To Amalie people were like dolls.”

— Willow Rose

“People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fake.”

— Dia Reeves

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

— Wallace Stevens

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made up like…

— Celine Sciamma

“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

— Sam Lipsyte

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.

— Laurie Simmons

“An unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not…

— Paul Auster

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

— John Lennon