Quotes About Society

They say women and music should never be dated.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.

I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.