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Source: Tolstoy's Diaries

“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.”

Men Should Social Sex Lines Pay Economic Position Degrees Responsible Sells Favors Treated Inevitable Merit One Man Prostitution Inferiority

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“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

“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.”

Ifs Moments Past Social Sex Creation Pure Ideals Relation Aids Partners Chains Ignored Peril Transmission Coupling

Author:Susan Sontag

“It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.”

Way Form Evil Social Sex Position Addiction Lust Distinction Satisfying Craving Climbers Lust For Power

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.”

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“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

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.”

Needs Social Sex Race Definitions

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.”

Men Mean Purpose Social Sex He Man Ultimate Dating Encounters Engagement Invites Conventional

Book:Heavenly Date: And Other Stories

Source: Heavenly Date: And Other Stories

“Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.”

Order Social Sex Sexuality Realms Social Order

Author:Susan McClary

“I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.”

Government Social Sex Gone Lifetime Spread Consideration Homosexuality Homosexual Taboo Sanctions Short Time Homosexual Marriage

Author:John Naisbitt

“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

“A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.”

Men Social Sex Institutions Instinct Jealousy Prostitution Social Institutions

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.”

Men Political Social Sex Black White Common Roles Share Importance Males Sexism Sensibility White Man Domination Stance Enabling

Author:Bell Hooks

“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.”

Ifs Should Suffering Opportunity Social Sex Boys Poverty Battle Should Have Lays Chains My Boys Relinquishing Ostracism Social Ostracism

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.”

“... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Social Sex Responsibility Influence Danger Degrees Dignity Proportion Inverse

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“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

“... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.”

Men Feels Feelings Social Sex Roles Negative Primaries Leisure Vary Optional Ambivalence Negative Feelings Social Roles

Author:Alice S Rossi

“Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.”

May Social Sex Psychological Phenomenon

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.”

World Important Force Social Sex Modern Development Motherhood Reaching Revolt Servitude Social Development Modern Times

Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”

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