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Quotes About Society

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
~ Lady Nancy Astor
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
~ Sally Ride
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
~ Yoko Ono
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
~ Stieg Larsson
It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.
~ Gillian Anderson
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.
~ Sally Kohn
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.
~ Dorothy Nevill
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
~ Elaine Stritch
The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men
~ Caroline Criado-Perez
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
~ Dorothy Richardson
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
~ Eve Ensler
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
~ Frederick Lenz
The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
~ Margaret Chan
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.
~ Frederick Lenz
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
~ Portia de Rossi
Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
~ Steve Martin
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
~ Frederick Lenz
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
~ Frederick Lenz
If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.
~ Michael Gurian