Quotes About Society

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, feminine ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your feet.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

All married women are not wives.