Culture Quote by Shulamith Firestone

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

— Camille Paglia

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

— Sigmund Freud

Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the…

— Jenny Zhang

Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture…

— Phyllis Chesler

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

— Sigmund Freud

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject…

— Lin Yutang

“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel…

— Laura Kipnis

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each…

— Ruth Benedict

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

— Albert Camus

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied…

— Shulamith Firestone

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Females were to be cherished and nurtured regardless of their species”

— Charlene Hartnady