Biology Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“It was one thing to have a professor tell you that gender was socially constructed, and another to hear it from a person who…

— Tom Perrotta

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

— Whitney Cummings

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

— Carol Gilligan

Waring: Reflections in this mirror maybe distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty.

— Anonymous

“everything conspires to make us forget the socially constructed, and hence arbitrary and artificial, character of investment in the economic game and its stakes:…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so…

— Rebecca Solnit

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience…

— Duane Elgin

“This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting out of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.”

— Julia T. Wood

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

— Heather Mac Donald

To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers ,…

— Gary Hamel