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Quotes About Culture

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.
~ Gina Bellman
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
~ Gloria Steinem
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.
~ Gloria Steinem
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.
~ Gwen Moore
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
~ Honore de Balzac
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
~ James Merrick
New York City has the most beautiful women.
~ Jason Mraz
I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.
~ Jay Leno
The reason men rule is because women let them.
~ Jessica Zafra
I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
~ Joe Manganiello
Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
~ John Darnielle
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
~ John Henrik Clarke
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
~ John Updike
The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
~ Judith Martin
The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.
~ Julianna Baggott
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
~ Junot Diaz
Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
~ Junot Diaz
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.
~ JWoww
I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.
~ Kam Williams
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
~ Kamla Persad-Bissessar
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.
~ Karen Chance
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
~ Kate Braverman