NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

~ Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Feminism Objectification

I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.

~ Jamie Le Fay

Jamie Le Fay Feminism Manhood Objectification Sexualization

Women aren't my competition because male attention and sexual objectification are not prizes for me.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Miya Yamanouchi Attention Competition Competitiveness Female Competition Female Competitiveness Feminism Feminist Jealousy Male Attention Male Gaze Objectification Prize Sexual Objectification Sexuality Victory Winner Women

Be that kind of girl who smiles when you walk past other girls instead of casting a dirty look. Don't buy into the notion of female competition that society so heavily promotes.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Miya Yamanouchi Competition Competitiveness Dirty Look Equality Female Competition Feminism Feminist Feminists Friendly Gender Girl Girls Jealousy Objectification Sexual Objectification Smile Society Women Women S Issues

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. She is then a provocation. The object provokes its use. It provokes its use because of its form, determined by the one who is provoked. The carpenter makes a chair, sits on it, then blames the chair because he is not standing. When the object complains about the use to which she is put, she is told, simply and firmly, not to provoke.

~ Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin Feminism Objectification Sexism

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. She is then a provocation. The object provokes its use. It provokes its usebecause of its form, determined by the one who is provoked. The carpenter makes a chair, sits on it, then blames the chair because heis not standing. When the object complains about the use to which she is put, she is told, simply and firmly, not to provoke.

~ Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin Feminism Objectification Sexism

Health makes good propaganda.

~ Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf Advertising Aging Beauty Body Image Cosmetic Surgery Cosmetics Culture Diet Industry Double Standards Equality Fashion Industry Feminism Health Images Magazines Marketing Mass Culture Objectification Plastic Surgery Propaganda Self Esteem Sexuality Society

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

~ Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin Choice Feminism Freedom Men Morality Objectification Oppression Patriarchy Women

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

Tom Hayes Commoditization Forces Individual Individuals Matter More Meaning Meaningful Life Objectification Potential Relevance

By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone’s desire.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Desire Masculinity Objectification

there are only so many thingsthat you can fix with your hands....What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

Danabelle Gutierrez Objectification Poem Poetry Poetry Quotes Sexual Spielzeug Woman

I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

~ Jasmine Ann Cooray

Jasmine Ann Cooray Envy Identity Ignorance Isolation Mixed Race Nationhood Objectification Poetry Politics Race

What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with hipness, coolness, edginess. So all kinds of youth all over the world are appropriating that style as a way of, sort of, countering authority, stating their rebelliousness, and wanting to be seen as significant.

~ Amalia Mesa-Bains

Amalia Mesa-Bains Appropriation Identity Objectification

Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty—or violence—he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist. These walls tend to grow over time, so that after a few years in a relationship my clients can reach a point where they feel no more guilt over degrading or threatening their partners than you or I would feel after angrily kicking a stone in the driveway.

~ Lundy Bancroft

Lundy Bancroft Abuse Abused Women Abusive Men Abusive Partners Abusive Relationships Objectification

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.

~ Scarlet Risque

Scarlet Risque Black Swan Objectification Perfection Perfection And Death Self Image Women Body

Art is the objectification of feeling.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Feeling Objectification