Jock Sturges Quotes

When it comes to modeling, I always feel like my body is a myth or a story that is told by other people, and no one knows what my body really looks like.

There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

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

I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.

Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

'Jism' is what it is because of my feminine gaze... And I believe strongly that my female audiences deserve eye candy as much as my male audiences do!

One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute