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Quotes About Society

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
~ Naomi Wolf
Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
~ John Berger
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~ Susan Brownmiller
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
~ Naomi Wolf
Can't punch women in the face!
~ Jim Jefferies
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
~ Estelle Ramey
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fuldheim
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
~ Shulamith Firestone
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
~ Hedy Lamarr
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
~ Joe Biden
I think women can save civilization.
~ Emily Murphy
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
~ Charles Fourier
The time has come when women should pay for a gigolo. Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.
~ Ruth Westheimer
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
~ Frederick Lenz
Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
~ Kevin Rudd
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
~ Lucy Stone
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
~ De Maistre
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
~ Grace Kelly
I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.
~ Shirin Neshat
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.
~ Laurie Penny