Caste system Quote by Ben Hecht

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

— Madonna Kolbenschlag

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were…

— James Welch

“They were empowered and fulfilled. They dated occasionally but were just as happy living the feminist dream of a professional woman not answerable to…

— Annette J Dunlea

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

— Saina Nehwal

“Initially the caste system was simply a reflection of the occupation one held but over time it seems to have transformed into a categorization…

— Adam Brown

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got…

— Robert Webb

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that,…

— Anna Quindlen

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman…

— Antonia Fraser

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

— Svetlana Alexievich

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

— Mary Brave Bird