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Quotes About Society

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~ Maya Angelou
Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?
~ William Shakespeare
Womens humor is part of the revolution.
~ Dale Spender
Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
~ Erica Jong
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
Women are necessary evils.
~ Proverb
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
~ Oscar Wilde
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
~ Naomi Wolf
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?
~ Bill Maher
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
~ Michael Korda
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.
~ Bhagavad Gita
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
~ Nellie McClung
The society of women is the element of good manners.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
~ Evelyn Cunningham
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
~ Bette Davis
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~ Plato
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
~ Marilyn French
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
~ Erma Bombeck
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
~ Theodor Reik
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fu...
~ George Carlin