Age Quote by Inga Muscio

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually…

— Isabella Lovin

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

— Adrienne Rich

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

Historically, we've attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies - probably since biblical times. It's a way that patriarchal societies have…

— Marielle Heller

Something in our society tells us that women's bodies are fair game for scrutiny in a way that men's simply are not.

— Nicola Coughlan

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

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

— Betty Dodson

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

— James Thurber

“And in an age when the girls were clearly gaining the upper hand on men in the Battle of the Sexes, men could do…

— Nicholas Chong

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a…

— Zoe Saldana

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been…

— Maria Mitchell

“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie