Object Status Quotes

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with them.

...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.

I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.

The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?