“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”

Source: Middlesex

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars." by Jeffrey Eugenides?
Jeffrey Eugenides photo
Jeffrey Eugenides 96
Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

Related quotes

Christina Hoff Sommers photo
Susan Cooper photo

“Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There’s your first lesson.”

Susan Cooper (1935) English fantasy writer

Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), The Dark Is Rising (1973), Chapter 3 “The Sign-Seeker” (p. 36)

Andrea Dworkin photo

“Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.”

Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: Life can be better for women - economic and political conditions improved - and at the same time the status of women can remain resistant, in deed impervious, to change: so far in history this is precisely the paradigm for social change as it relates to the conditions of women. Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change. Women are still less significant, have less privacy, less integrity, less self-determination. This means that women have less freedom.

Desmond Tutu photo

“[T]here is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

As quoted in "Archbishop urges battle with racism" http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-02-18/news/0202180155_1_racism-archbishop-desmond-tutu-st-sabina (18 February 2002), by Sabrina L. Miller, Chicago Tribune, Illinois

“All sort of boundaries, be their gender, age, socio-economic status, physical or mental disabilities have to be eliminated.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

Education for All People and Education for Life

Woody Allen photo

“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Viktor E. Frankl photo
Jair Bolsonaro photo

“Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) at the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/politica/republica/o-dia-que-bolsonaro-quis-matar-fhc-sonegar-impostos-e-declarar-guerra-civil-8mtm0u0so6pk88kqnqo0n1l69. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).

Nicanor Parra photo

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”

Nicanor Parra (1914–2018) writer, poet, matematician, fisic

Source: Artefactos

Related topics