Quotes About Society

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.

Just how much renunciation of desire does society demand of us versus the degree of gratification it provides?

I hate the habit of calling women high-maintenance, as if they were cars or appliances. As if women, in general, require care in a way that men do not.

She liked what she saw, although she knew being a not-beautiful woman was supposed to be a tragedy.

It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is

Later, she also saw that innocence need be nothing of the kind, and that conventional morality might have its own impurity.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

If you are not a lady, then you are a whore. You do not want to know what would happen to a human whore within these walls. He seemed tired as he said it, as if he'd been there, done that, and hadn't had a good time.

I'm sorry I have issues with my boyfriend doing other men. I'm sorry I have issues with me doing other men. Why was I always being made to feel guilty because I wasn't having sex with more people? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?

There was something a little frightening about a man who knew he was not a nice person and didn't give a damn. It went against everything America holds dear.

prejudice doesn't go away just because a law changes.

it just proved that I think like an American. Violence is dandy, but God forbid you show sex on stage.

When you live in a way that's too different from everyone else, you get grief about it. Is it fair? No, but it's still what happens.

in a way though it is easier to give in to a decision to have a second than to stand firm in one's wish to only have one child.

In the past we assumed it was out of a woman's control" whether or not she had a child. "Now we think it's her choice, so we can blame her.

Surprise! It actually felt pretty lousy to have a one-night stand, despite the fact that every so-called empowered friend and tattered waiting-room copy of Cosmo swore that no-strings-attached sex was nothing but fun, fun, fun.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

His mother made a noise that in anyone of lower rank than a countess would have been given the unmannerly name of snort. As a cowed member of the ton had once commented, 'Nobody harrumphs quite like the Marchioness of Uppington.

Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother's plans to see him married off within the next Season.

He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive. She had less thrown than been thrown.

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.