Body Rights Quotes

Michael, if he wants an operation on his nose, plastic surgery, hey, he can do it. It's his right.

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 have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

The human body is not lent out, is not rented out, is not sold.

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

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.

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