Body Quote by Wangechi Mutu

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its…

— Pope Francis

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable,…

— Naomi Wolf

“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“...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

Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and…

— Sheila Jeffreys

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted…

— Stella Young

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example…

— Waris Dirie

I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the…

— Sheila Kelley

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen…

— Andrew Cohen

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

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim