Female bodybuilding started out as a circus attraction, and I guess it still feels unnatural to some people, especially in a place… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“The culture is littered with female body parts, with clothes and posturing that purportedly express sexual confidence. But who cares how “proud”… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
“There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
A lot of girls will do regular crunches, when that is building muscle in the middle of your stomach on top of… — April Rose Copy Share Image
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
I'm not really a political performer/comedian/performance artist or whatever you want to call it. But I feel like maybe I'm political just… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
If I were forced to go to church, I would worship at the altar of the naked female body, my head bowed… — AB Copy Share Image
The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet… — Sandra Bartky Copy Share Image
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
“It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“Everyone wears clothing, yes? Society divides these clothing up into Men & Women’s, Boys & Girls’, Jr. & Miss. But society cannot… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“If so, why has a naturally masculine shape (broad shoulders, no waist, narrow hips, flat belly) become the ideal for the female… — Anita A. Johnston Copy Share Image
“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.' We know from the… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
