Famous quotes containing the words american and/or society:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“The question is still asked of women: “How do you propose to answer the need for child care?” That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: “If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?””
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)