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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
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history
love
objectification
objectification-of-women
women
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Philippa Gregory |
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The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.
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history
importance
love
marriage
objectification
objectification-of-women
personhood
unimportant
women
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Philippa Gregory |
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Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
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bible
history
inequality
infidelity
marriage
objectification
objectification-of-women
old-testament
personhood
property
religion
women
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Bill Maher |
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But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen.
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bad-taste
bourgeois-society
foreigners
objectification
objectification-of-women
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It was the 'Are the boys doing it?' basis on which I finally decided I was against women wearing burkas. Yes, the idea is that it protects your modesty, and ensures that people regard you as a human being, rather than just a sexual object (...) But who are you being protected from? Men. And who - so long as you play by the rules, and wear the correct clothes - is protecting you from the men? Men. And who is it that is regarding you as a sexual object, instead of another human being, in the first place? Men. Well. This all seems like quite a man-based problem, really. (...) I don't know why we're suddenly having to put things on our heads to make it better.
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feminism
misogyny
modesty-mindsets
objectification-of-women
oppression
oppressive-body-coverings
patriarchy
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Caitlin Moran |