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Quotes About Society

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
~ Susan Faludi
Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.
~ Tiffani Thiessen
When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?
~ Tim Gunn
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
~ Tina Fey
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
~ Tom Colicchio
Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.
~ Tom Ford
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
~ Tom Stoppard
The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.
~ Tony Evans
In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
~ Valeria Mazza
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.
~ Vanna Bonta
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
~ Virginia Woolf
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
~ Walt Whitman
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
~ Warren Farrell
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
~ Warren Farrell
I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
~ Warren Farrell
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
~ Wilkie Collins
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
~ Will Rogers
A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.
~ William Shakespeare
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
~ William Shakespeare
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
~ William Wycherley
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
~ William Wycherley