Quotes About Society

Raised to be God-fearing, if not religious, both Violet and Faye came to think of all this - their lives as silent, fettered wives and mothers - as the trade-off for marrying well

Psychotherapy Frank Koerselman for years. It was about what he called "the pampered society." He wrote that modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.

Wharton, E. The Buccaneers. London: Viking, 1993.

Is that what they think, then? That loners have no friends?

The whole world is a personality cult.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.

The mob thinks we are maladjusted. Of course we are adjusted just fine, not to their frequency. They take it personally.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming.

the real revolution for this century "would be to stop seeing the home as a gendered space" but rather as both a male and female domain, just as we now see the workplace.

Real equality for men and women needs a men's movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on men even as we struggle to remove them from women.

It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;

The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and what they can do. It is time to do the same for men. WHAT

The first half-truth is that the issue of work-life balance is a "women's problem." If we define it that way, then it is up to women to find or at least implement the solution. The second is that employers can make room for caregiving by offering flextime and part-time arrangements.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community's values.

Empowered Black people made the intangible benefits derived from Whiteness less valuable.

Cada vez que prestamos un título, cada vez que preguntamos algo en relación con él, cada vez que decimos "Si te ha gustado ese, seguro que te gustará este" nos transformamos —por arte de magia— en esa sociedad literaria.

But what can I do? I can—she leapt into the abyss—join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.

Thousands of girls have climbed up stairs and knocked on a door answered by a woman who is a complete stranger, to whom they are about to entrust their stomach and womb. And that woman, the only person who can rid them of their misfortune, would open the door, in an apron and patterned slippers, clutching a dish towel, and inquire, "yes, miss, can i help you?

Des milliers de filles ont monté un escalier, frappé à une porte derrière laquelle il y avait une femme dont elles ne savaient rien, à qui elles allaient abandonner leur sexe et leur ventre. Et cette femme, la seule personne alors capable de faire passer le malheur, ouvrait la porte, en tablier et en pantoufles à pois, un torchon à la main : "C'est pour quoi, mademoiselle?

Yo también caí en la trampa de la mujer total, orgullosa de ser por fin capaz de conciliarlo todo, la subsistencia, un hijo y tres cursos de lengua francesa, guardiana del hogar y dispensadora del saber, superwoman, no solo intelectualmente hablando, en resumidas cuentas, armónica. Vía libre al lirismo cuando lo demás, la reflexión en particular, ha desaparecido.

Et rien ne peut faire que ce qui a été vécu dans un monde, celui d'avant 1968, et condamné par les règles de ce monde, puisse changer radicalement de sens dans un autre monde. Cela reste un événement sexuel singulier, dont la honte est insoluble dans la doxa du nouveau siècle.

Organization, the watchword of women everywhere, magazines overflowing with advice, save time, do this, that and the other... but it's really a method of sticking yourself with the most work possible in the least amount of time without pain or suffering because that would bother those around you.