Quotes About Society

People shame women, but then you see all these guys, and they can do whatever they want. That isn't just in wrestling, that is life.

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

I don't find movies shocking.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

I have never been one to show off too much skin, and it's not just because I'm a larger woman.

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can't a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?

L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.

When I hear a girl has had two babies by the age of 16, I think two things: Is she called Chardonnay, and what is she doing with her life?

I'm not cut out to lug babies around!

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

Definitely, India is a male-dominated country. Our films and society are also male-dominated and will always be. But its backbone will always be women because women give strength.

For some people of color, for some people with conservative or religious backgrounds, you know, we're constantly sort of looking over our shoulder.

A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.

There are a lot of bad people out there.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.