Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the “unworldliness” of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control th… - Germaine Greer

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women’s bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art nouveau, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.

The most holy band of society is friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’,

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.