A Quote by Vivienne Westwood

I like to literally put women on a pedestal — © Vivienne Westwood
I like to literally put women on a pedestal
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
The media tends to put the artists with the hottest single on a pedestal. And as soon as that single goes away, you're kicked off the pedestal.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.
Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.
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