Culture Quote by Lorraine Hansberry

The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs the attention…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about…

— Bell Hooks

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz

Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, which date to…

— Nadja Sam

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the…

— Allison Pearson

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was…

— Anonymous

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of…

— Anna Julia Cooper

The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just…

— Yoko Ono

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt