Quotes About Society

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.