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“Possibilities for women have become so open-ended that they threaten to destabilize the institutions on which a male-dominated culture has depended, and a collective…

— Anonymous

“The acceptance of woman as object of the desiring male gaze in the visual arts is so universal that for a woman to question…

— Linda Nochlin

I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated…

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

I personally think that women should have the choice to show as much skin as they're comfortable with, and it shouldn't negatively impact their…

— Ana Kasparian

“We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t…

— Kate Wicker

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes,…

— Henri Matisse

“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not…

— Fred Halliday

“If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.”

— Peggy Phelan

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that…

— Naomi Wolf