Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
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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.

— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
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