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female body

Noun

Meaning

the body of a female human being

Source: WordNet

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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. Christian Dior

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. Camille Paglia

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Camille Paglia

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day. Richard Roeper

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world. Christine de Pizan

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally. Rachel Cusk

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