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Quotes About Society

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.
~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
~ Katherine Dunn
Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
~ Janet Fitch
A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
~ Neil Strauss
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.
~ Lisa Gardner
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
~ Larry McMurtry
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
~ Barry Goldwater
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
~ Bertrand Russell
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
~ Betty Dodson
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
~ Riane Eisler
I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.
~ Jane Wyman
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
~ Lin Yutang
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.
~ Jimmy Carter
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.
~ Laura Schlessinger
At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
~ Kim Gordon
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
~ Kate Smith
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
~ Jules Michelet
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
~ Caitlin Moran
America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
~ Kaye Ballard
When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.
~ Kate Clinton