Quotes About Society

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.

Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn't cry because I couldn't deal with my life, but because I could.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.