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Quotes About Society

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
~ Kristin Hersh
It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.
~ Kristina Schroder
All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
~ Lady Gaga
Women are strangers in the country of man.
~ Laura Riding
Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
~ Lauren Graham
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.
~ Les Dawson
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
~ Libba Bray
It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
~ Lindsey Vonn
As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
~ Lisa Ling
It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.
~ Liz Tuccillo
Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.
~ Liza Johnson
While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.
~ Liza Mundy
Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.
~ Lorrie Moore
Men feared witches and burned women.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
~ Madame de Stael
Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.
~ Madonna Ciccone
men are not realists - only women are.
~ Mae West
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women
~ Mahatma Gandhi