Quotes About Society

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Women all live a double standard.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.