Conventions Quote by Christopher Lasch

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat…

— Christopher Lasch

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best…

— Georg Baselitz

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

— George Bernard Shaw

“When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our…

— Nelson Mandela

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

— Phyllis Chesler

As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members…

— Sheila Jeffreys

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It…

— George C. Lorimer

Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought…

— Samuel Johnson

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think…

— Gloria Steinem

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .…

— Alexander H. Stephens

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…

— Lydia M. Child

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

— Irving Babbitt

The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary…

— Henning von Tresckow

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…

— Alexander MacLaren