Quotes About Society

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

when women progress, all of society benefits.

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.