Quotes About Society

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

You ask anyone in college, how would you like your wife or girlfriend to be? No one wants the ugliest girl in the world who no one wants to look at. Out of 100 people, all 100 will say that I want the most beautiful woman in the world.

The most important thing that I've learnt is that the perfect body doesn't exist.

The most important thing is culture.

It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

If a female wants to do a man's job, no one will stop her from doing it, but women have duties to perform as mothers.

'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

We always talk about single mothers; the challenges they face. But the single father faces challenges as well.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.