84 Quotes About Objectification

It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing, and there is no safety.

Women are objects, commodities, some deemed more expensive than others. But it is only by asserting one's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all is the core of our struggle.

Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don’t become just another litany of “what ifs” and sad regrets.

I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.

She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain.

I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

Sexploitation involves the partial, not the complete, reduction of woman. We must be sufficiently objectified to be a body that is for-men and at the same time sufficiently our-selves to have human grace and movement.

If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not forced? The idea that these crimes are escapable is the blind optimism of men who don't understand what it means to live in a body that attracts a particular kind of attention with magnetic force.