Social Construct Quotes

“The body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse. The body vanishes as a biological entity and becomes instead a socially constituted product which is infinitely malleable and highly unstable.”
― Michel Foucault

“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people also tell widows not to bother grieving their husbands, because marriage is also just another social construct.”
― C. N. Lester

“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”
― John Updike, Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

“At least all Gods except one are man-made.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Family isn’t just a social construct, you know darling, it is formed in the heart. It’s instinctive, this feeling of belonging to someone whose absence keeps you incomplete. . .”
― Franciska Soares, They Whisper in my Blood

“If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.”
― Denise Riley, WAR IN NURSERY

“Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion.”
― David G. McAfee

“Being someone is not a biological need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know I'm not supposed to care about gender, or even acknowledge it as anything more than a social construct, but I really would prefer a girl.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins