Societal Attitude Quotes

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.

We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.

The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry... Imagine if you saw George Clooney on the cover of a magazine every week with, is George broody? Is George going to adopt a baby? When is George going to have another kid? It would just seem weird. We'd seem demented, yet it's totally valid for women.