Battleground Quote by Keira Knightley

“although there are many factors that contribute to women's body-image issues, we cannot ignore the role that society plays in the aesthetics of what…

— Malebo Sephodi

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…

— Keira Knightley

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.

— Daisy Lowe

I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain type of…

— Lily Collins

Many women don't appreciate their form because it doesn't look like what they see on the front cover of a magazine. They feel ashamed…

— Danielle Colby

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

— Ulrika Jonsson

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously…

— Amanda de Cadenet

Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.

— Shakira

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

— Gloria Steinem

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that

— Mario Testino

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I…

— Cynthia Heimel

Sometimes people feel really trapped by the body that they have. Women are told, 'You have this body shape; you're a pear or string…

— Mary Helen Bowers