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Body Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female…
- Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
- I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I…
- I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She could pick and…
- Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness…
- This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
- Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies…
- Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion…
- The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
- For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families…
- Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine