Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ellyn Spragins

Quote by Ellyn Spragins

“Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.”

Quote by Ellyn Spragins

Create image

Author

Ellyn Spragins

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Ellyn Spragins. more

You May Also Like

“Women have been programmed to view our bodies only in terms of how they look and feel to others, rather than how they feel to ourselves, and how we wish to use them. We are surrounded by media images portraying women as essentially decorative machines of consumer function, constantly doing battle with rampant decay. (Take your vitamins every day and he might keep you, if you don’t forget to whiten your teeth, cover up your smells, color your grey hair and iron out your wrinkles....) As women, we fight this depersonalization every day, this pressure toward the conversion of one’s own self-image into a media expectation of what might satisfy male demand.”

WomenExpectationsGenderGender RolesBodiesObjectificationDepersonalizationWomen S Bodies
Book:The Cancer Journals
Create image