Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified. — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right! — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful. — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
“Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.” — Peggy Vincent Copy Share Image
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There are, of course, still people out there who think that the reproductive functions of women's bodies should exclude them from the… — Emer O'Toole Copy Share Image
The fight for equality is a battle to be seen and heard. But the price of political power has been the scrutiny,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Historically, we've attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies - probably since biblical times. It's a way that patriarchal… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power… — Isabella Lovin Copy Share Image
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“arrived in the company of two enormous white women whose bodies were dual masses of rolling, dimpled flesh. Fat spilled over their… — Anonymous 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
“After you’ve looked at normal women’s bodies, look at yourself in the mirror. Stand there for at least three minutes, once a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick,… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“Katrina noted that “humans are so focused on preventing aging and decay—it’s become an obsession. And for those who have been socialized… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“Men's sexual freedom has depended, and still does to a large extent, upon their ownership of women's bodies. Men have bought, sold… — Sheila Jeffreys 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
I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around. — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The conversation I know I'm qualified to have is the one surrounding women's bodies and how we are treated and valued in… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
![“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.'…” quote by Keira Knightley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/982/keira-knightley-3384_battleground_i-ve-had-my-body-manipulated-so-many-dif_113510.jpg)
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