Bodily Quotes

“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Although scholars such as Butler have debated such approaches as reinforcing problematic identity models and creating an either/or distinction, Lather is referring to the power of using the discouraged discourse as an act of transgression. Thus, embodiment and reflexivity are tools used to disrupt current language and assumptions about the value of female bodies through a voluptuous validity. The term "voluptuous" is not used as an objectification of a sexualised body, as seen through the male gaze, but rather as an ownership of the body through a somantic fullness. Characteristics associated with female, body, fluids, excess, undisciplined, and out of order aspects are purposively used as an act of rebellion against patriarchal taboos.”
― Jill Green

“I wake up with a swelling wound around my heavy heart; my body can barely endure it. My body, this substance that is my constant companion, sticks to me and lies there between my days and nights, spreading like decay in warm weather.”
― Iman Humaydan, Wild Mulberries