Quotes About Class

Social networks matter greatly, and our class calibrations are often around what college one attended, leading to gruesome institutional divisions between those who attend, say, community colleges and those who attend top-tier universities.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I was a student at Kent State University in May of 1970. I was also a musician in a regionally popular band called the James Gang. I was still going to class and stuff, but I was in and out because we were playing a lot.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Being a lady is an attitude.

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be "reached out to" in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?""Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.