Quotes About Society

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Poverty is the mother of crime.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother