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"Women are the real architects of society"

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There is a gleeful defiance baked into Cher calling women "the real architects of society". She reaches for a grand, almost civic metaphor - not muses, not supporters, not even "the backbone" - but designers: the people who draft the blueprint, argue with reality, and still insist a structure can stand. Coming from a pop star whose career has been a long-running tutorial in survival, reinvention, and taking up space, the line lands less like a polite compliment and more like a correction.

The intent feels twofold: to elevate women's labor and to shame the culture that treats that labor as atmospheric. "Architects" reframes what gets dismissed as private, domestic, or emotional work into something structural and public. The subtext is that society doesn't just happen; it's built daily through childcare, elder care, community glue work, social norms enforced at the kitchen-table level, and the invisible project management of keeping people alive and functional. If that sounds like politics, that's the point: Cher is smuggling a feminist thesis into a punchy one-liner.

Context matters because Cher's celebrity is its own argument. She came up in an era that sold women as decoration and punished them for aging, speaking loudly, or refusing gratitude. Her persona - camp, blunt, unapologetically competent - makes the quote work as cultural judo: using the platform built by spectacle to insist on substance. It reads like pop wisdom, but it's also a demand to update the credit line on civilization.

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Later attribution: You Are Strong as Hell (Maria Medeiros, 2022) modern compilationISBN: 9781800077874 · ID: 61KuEAAAQBAJ
Text match: 95.00%   Provider: Google Books
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Words to Help You Celebrate Your Power, Supercharge Your Resilience and Lift Your Vibe Maria Medeiros. I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THE DICTIONARY THAT DEFINES ME. ZADIE SMITH WOMEN ARE THE REAL ARCHITECTS OF SOCIETY. CHER A STRONG.
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The Lost Girl (Chap. 1) (D.H. Lawrence, 1920) primary60.0%
Song: "The Lost Girl (Chap. 1)" by D.H. Lawrence
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Cher. (2026, February 10). Women are the real architects of society. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-the-real-architects-of-society-127897/

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Cher. "Women are the real architects of society." FixQuotes. February 10, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-the-real-architects-of-society-127897/.

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"Women are the real architects of society." FixQuotes, 10 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-the-real-architects-of-society-127897/. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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Cher (born May 20, 1946) is a Musician from USA.

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