“The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with well developed musculature.”

—  Robert Crumb

As qtd. in the Picturing The Modern Amazon exhibition https://mnaves.wordpress.com/2000/06/19/picturing-the-modern-amazon-at-the-new-museum
Attributed

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with we…" by Robert Crumb?
Robert Crumb photo
Robert Crumb 25
American cartoonist 1943

Related quotes

Roger Ebert photo

“Censors feel they are safe from objectionable material but must protect others who are not as smart or moral. The same impulse tempts the reviewer of 'The Believer'… If the wrong people get the wrong message - well, there has never been any shortage of wrong messages. Or wrong people.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-believer-2002 of The Believer (14 June 2002)
Reviews, Three star reviews

Arthur Jones (inventor) photo

“There must surely be a few bodybuilders who are not idiots. But if so, they are well camouflaged in some undiscovered cave.”

Arthur Jones (inventor) (1926–2007) American inventor

The New High Intensity Training (2004)

China Miéville photo
Ai Weiwei photo

“No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

Ai Weiwei. “ The Olympics Are a Propaganda Show http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,531883,00.html.” Spiegel, January 29, 2008.
2000-09, 2008

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Elizabeth Loftus photo

“In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.”

Elizabeth Loftus (1944) American cognitive psychologist

Source: Eyewitness Testimony (1979), p. 62

Susan Sontag photo

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

Joan Rivers photo

“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

Quoted in L.A. Times (10 May 1974), as reported in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 638

Paul Karl Feyerabend photo

“One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances”

pg 51.
Science in a Free Society (1978)

Related topics