“it establishes a ‘frame’ that produces the objectification and mastery of the world by man as subiectum” — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
“Hauck, it’s broken,” he calls. “What?” The human you hoarded.” Quinton repeats, waving his hand toward me in disgust. “Something is wrong… — Alex Lidell Copy Share Image
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me… — Oona Chaplin Copy Share Image
“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that.… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
“Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989).… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
People don't care what men wear or how they look. Unfortunately for women, the music industry is very visual and objectifying. The… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
“Academics have spent too much time trying to explain objectification, considering that there’s an easy way to make white, Western men understand:… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image