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Quotes About Objectification

My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.
~ Les Dawson
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and animals. They see no life When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and rivers are not alive
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
~ Alissa Quart
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
~ Cameron Russell
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
~ Emil Ferris
We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
~ Jessica Chastain
Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The effect of any form of materialism is to treat all men—including oneself—as objects, which is to say as a set of predetermined reactions indistinguishable from the properties and phenomena that constitute, say, a table, a chair, or a stone. Our aim is exactly to establish the human kingdom as a set of values distinct from the material world.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
~ Jean Baudrillard
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.
~ Trace Lysette
The irony is that some men use money to attract women but hate gold diggers and some women use their body to attract men but hate to be viewed as sex objects.
~ Tom Hardy
Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.
~ Tom Hayes
You can sell a woman? In cities, it's done all the time, all the time. It's like selling meat.
~ Tomson Highway
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
~ Tori Amos
Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.
~ Tucker Max
All the mouths that had probed her mouth, all the hands that had seized her breasts and her belly, all the members that had been thrust into her and so perfectly provided the living proof that she was indeed prostituted, had at the same time provided the proof that she was worthy of being prostituted and had, so to speak, sanctified her.
~ Pauline Réage
It was true that she had been passed from hand to hand as often as were the prostitutes in brothels, so why should they treat her otherwise?
~ Pauline Réage
They too struggle with the expectation to look sexy but not to feel sexual, to provoke desire in others without experience it themselves. Our daughters may not be faced with the decision of whether to strip for maxim, but they will have to figure out how to become sexual beings without being objectified or stigmatized.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
~ Susanne Langer
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
~ Richard Schickel
there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
~ Djuna Barnes, Nightwood