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 and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art Nouméa, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.

The Female Eunuch