Bodily Integrity Quotes

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

First be a good animal.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

A woman owns her own body and nobody has the right to tell her what to do with it. Period.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.

Do we not own our own bodies?

My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

I talk about my body because it's my body.