Matthew Scully Quotes

The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

What is art? Prostitution.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

I hate being thought of as a product.

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

Nursed and educated in the daily habit of seeing the degraded condition, both bodily and mental, of these unfortunate beings [slaves], few minds have yet doubted that they were as legitimate subjects of property as their horses or cattle

Societies cannot honestly support women as builders of the new economies while tolerating a market in which criminals sell them as commodities.

I'm only a product like a cake of soap, to be sold as well as possible.

People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

Everything in our world is branded.

Everyone's life is for sale in America.