Famous quotes containing the words feared and/or social:
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)