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“In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.”

Wells Enough Whole Age Social Sex Female Absolutes Slavery Majority Slave Males Thinker Cultivation

Book:The Subjection of Women: Mill's Works

Source: The Subjection of Women: Mill's Works

“I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.”

Thinking Would Be America Social Black President Path Easier Female Instance Unfortunate Legitimacy Unmarried Female President

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.”

People Believe Children Important Together Law Used Force Social Practice Female Tradition Foundation Discrimination Code Justify Elders Great Respect Mutilation Infanticide

Author:Mary Robinson

“The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.”

Source: In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age

“Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.”

Knows Men Made Social Sex Men And Women Female Males Gender Divided Requirements Submission Dominance Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is

Book:Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

“Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.”

Made Two States Social Natural Female Males Protest Prostitution Robbery Females And Males

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.”

Men Social Female Males Gentleman Constructs Masculinity Femininity Be A Man Ladies And Gentlemen Females And Males

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.”

Ifs Should Together Jobs Force Social Company Support Models Concern Female Tasks Organization Function Psychological Related Deficiency Sociability Task Forces Positive Image

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.”

Thinking Ends Age Social Sex Levels Issues Effects Higher Majors Female Males Decrease Hormones Puberty Testosterone

Author:James McBride

“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.”

Facts Political Order Social Sex Differences Economic Concepts Concerned Female Organization Males Equality Ethical Social Organization

Author:Alice S Rossi

“The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.”

May Social Class Skills Female Definitions Social Class Proverbial

Author:Emily James Smith Putnam