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Quotes About Society

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
~ Honore de Balzac
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
~ Honore de Balzac
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
~ Honore de Balzac
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
~ Horace Greeley
I only seem to date younger women.
~ Ian McLagan
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
~ Iris Murdoch
I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
~ James Blunt
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
~ James Boswell
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
~ James Huneker
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
~ James Merrick
A woman's place is in the wrong.
~ James Thurber
Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.
~ Janeane Garofalo
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
~ Janet Flanner
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The press seems to love pitting women against each other.
~ Jeanne Tripplehorn
I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.
~ Jen Kirkman
Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women
~ Jenny Holzer
Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.
~ Jenny Hval
Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.
~ Jessica Valenti
The reason men rule is because women let them.
~ Jessica Zafra
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
~ Jo Brand
Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.
~ Joan Collins
We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.
~ Joan Coxsedge