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Quotes About Society

Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so
~ Rob Schneider
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
~ Charlize Theron
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
~ Julie Garwood, The Prize
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
~ Pink
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
~ Cokie Roberts
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
~ Amber Heard
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
~ Libba Bray
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ Peter S. Prescott
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
~ Evan Esar
If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
~ Christine Delphy
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.
~ Ariel Winter
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
~ Carol Alt
Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
~ Caroline Criado-Perez
Older women have always been attracted to me.
~ Corey Clark
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
~ Ruth Rendell