Quotes About Society

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

Blaming women is always in fashion.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.