Body Quote by Polly Toynbee Download Open image “Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.” — Polly Toynbee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Christianity Christianity and judaism Disgusting Islam Islamophobia Judaism Women 's bodies
“...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology. For example, biologically and physiologically, women's bodies are seen as both… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I think we may have overlooked men's negative feelings about their bodies because judgment of women has historically always been so much harsher. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe. — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The strain of engaging emotionally with all that misery was exhausting. The kindness and hard work of the care assistants here was worth far… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
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