top of page

"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, French Sociologist

Woman, Women, Dancing, Faces

44

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

Woman, Women, Revolution, Joy, Struggle

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic

Woman, Women, Students, Writer

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Woman, Women, Being, Girls, Man

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Woman, Women, Dumb

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Woman, Women, War, Feelings, Deals

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Woman, Women, Women

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Woman, Women, Battle, Rights

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Woman, Women, Silence

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Queen Marie of Romania, British Royalty

Woman, Women, People, Breeding, Etiquette

Explore more quotes by Jean Baudrillard

"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."

"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."

"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price."

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."

"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

bottom of page