Bodybuilding Quote by Katy O'Brian

Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and…

— Mark Rippetoe

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another…

— Kathleen Hanna

I just think the idea of moving away from the body and discovering sensuality by skimming the body, not tightening the body, seems rather…

— Prabal Gurung

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

— Gloria Steinem

I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to…

— Wardell Milan

I think it is refreshing for a lot of people to see a woman stepping up and showing that it's possible to do things…

— Koffee

“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my…

— Malebo Sephodi

Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got…

— Dorian Yates

Thank God we're getting rid of the stigma that women shouldn't have muscles, that if a woman does she looks like a man. I'm…

— Chloe Madeley

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