Female Body Quotes

29 Female Body quotes by 26 unique authors

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… — Gloria Steinem
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.… — George Gilder
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling… — Ana Mendieta
I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women, especially their backs.… — Miranda Kerr
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth — Cherrie Moraga
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment… — Susan Brownmiller
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body. — Christian Dior
It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man… — Edward Dahlberg
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs… — Andrea Dworkin
We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.' We know from the first letter of John… — Jason Evert
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not… — Ina May Gaskin
The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport. — Unknown Author
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a… — Lena Horne
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world — Christine de Pizan
The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in… — Sandra Bartky
I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix… — Christiane Northrup
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from,… — Rachel Cusk
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it,… — Caroline Knapp
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a… — Richard Roeper
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… — Gloria Steinem
My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against… — Melina Marchetta

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