Beauty Quote by Sheila Jeffreys

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's…

— Andrew Cohen

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

“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

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to…

— Phyllis Chesler

“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

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

— Ulrika Jonsson

Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

— Petra Collins

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

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

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

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

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

— Polly Toynbee