Quotes About Society

En gran parte del mundo vivimos en una cultura enfocada hacia la juventud, la belleza y el éxito. Para cualquier mujer resulta muy difícil navegar en esas aguas; para la mayoría es un naufragio seguro.

I never accepted the limited feminine role imposed upon me by my family, society, culture, and religion. At fifteen I walked away from the church forever, not for lack of faith - that cam later - but because of the inherent machismo of all religious organizations. I cannot belong to an institution that considers me a second-class member whose authorities, always male, enjoy complete impunity and enforce their rules with dogma.

It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

Enough of euphemisms. Enough of partial solutions. Profound changes are needed in society and it's us, women, who can impose them. Remember that no one gives us anything. We have to seize what we want. We need to create global awareness and get organized. Now, more than ever before, this is possible because we have information, communication, and the ability to mobilize.

Una mujer de cincuenta puede ser invisible en Las Vegas, pero muy atractiva en París.

El marxismo no tiene ni la menor oportunidad en America Latina. ¿No ves que no contempla el lado mágico de las cosas?

Since 1973, the year of the military coup that changed so many things, situating has become a little more complex because in the first three minutes of conversation you also have to guess whether the person you're speaking to was for or against the dictatorship.

la castità è una zavorra; forse prima incuteva rispetto, ma ora è sospetta, nessuno lascia un bambino da solo con un prete

Pedro Tercero García no ha hecho nada que no hayas hecho tú —dijo Clara, cuando pudo interrumpirlo—. Tú también te has acostado con mujeres solteras que no son de tu clase. La diferencia es que él lo ha hecho por amor. Y Blanca también. Trueba la miró, inmovilizado por la sorpresa. Por

Si lo que quieres es andar armado, entre ser delincuente o ser policía, es mejor ser policía, porque tienes impunidad.

Sus modales eran impecables, requisito esencial en la clase alta, dónde el uso debido del tenedor era más importante que las condiciones morales de un sujeto.

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

until women shortened their dresses and their hair and stopped wearing corsets, it made no difference if they studied medicine or had the right to vote, because they would not have the strength to do it […]

Hay una cierta soltura en la feminidad, dijeron. A los hombres los entrenan para reprimir las emociones, están limitados por la camisa de fuerza de la masculinidad.

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

The truth is that men control political and economic power—they make the laws and apply them at their convenience—

El individualismo se consideraba una forma de demencia

los incas de la nobleza rara vez tenían consideraciones con su pueblo.

The elderly are treated not as a priority but as a nuisance.

how much more dangerous the world was for women, how we should cross the street if a man's coming toward us and there's nobody else around and avoid them completely if they're in a group, watch our backs, look to both sides, turn invisible.

Cómo surgieron de pronto tantos delatores, colaboradores, torturadores y asesinos? Tal vez estuvieron siempre allí y no supimos verlos.

the national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.