Deformity Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deformity Friendship Shows
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically functional. The surgeons are playing on the myth's double… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed female characters. We're held to a… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17” — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and… — John Armstrong Copy Share