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Quotes About Society

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
~ Sandra Cisneros
There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.
~ Sarah Baker
As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
~ Sarah Gadon
I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.
~ Sarah Ruhl
As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.
~ Sarah Silverman
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.
~ Scott Adams
Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.
~ Sergio Leone
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
~ Shane Black
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
~ Shania Twain
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~ Sharon Gless
Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
~ Shirley Manson
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.
~ Stacy Schiff
You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.
~ Stephen Marche
Dating a older woman- hot" Emmet Cullen
~ Stephenie Meyer
Women are enslaved by their own liberation.
~ Susan Faludi