Culture Quote by Shulamith Firestone

“In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its…

— Shane Claiborne

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for…

— Larry McMurtry

“Is the division into men and women a product of the imagination, like the caste system in India and the racial system in America,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

— Shulamith Firestone

“Sexual differentiation begins approximately six weeks after conception, when in male children the gonads are formed and begin to manufacture male hormone, which has…

— Anthony Stevens

“Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism, which…

— Anonymous

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to…

— Anonymous

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a…

— Margaret Mead

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

— Winnie Byanyima

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

— Helen Foster Snow

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and…

— Anonymous

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography.…

— Amal Clooney