Objectified Quotes

“His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out.
"Posture's wrong," Kat said.
"He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world.
"I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them.”
― Ally Carter

“Why does the twenty-first century feel like this?
Like men are talking into
their favorite phonograph
& the phonograph is me
receiving their baritone: You're so exotic
Watch out, men, says my violin
I am a Royal Bengal man-eating tiger”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“You have beautiful eyes, he said all of a sudden.

I hated compliments like that, compliments that carved out one particular part of your body and put it on a platter for viewing. It always took a while for me to reabsorb that body part afterward, to add it back to the whole. The best kind of compliment to give me was something vague, plausible. You’re all right. Or, Don’t worry, it gets better.”
― Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations: Stories