Quotes About Social norms

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

I resent people who use phrases like "my first," so the person they're speaking to is practically obliged to imagine them having sex to complete the sentence. It's not nice.)

What is a culture? A culture is what approves or disapproves of the actions in its midst. Yet how rare for approval to be unanimous.

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

Alla gente non piacciono questi fatti, ma non so che cosa farci. Se qualcuno ti chiede come stai, si aspetta che tu risponda BENE. Non devi dire che la sera prima ti sei addormentata piangendo perché erano due giorni di fila che non parlavi con un'altra persona. Devi dire: BENE.

es decir las órdenes, las costumbres y los caprichos.

Ah! sempre la stessa musica![...] Sempre i doveri: ecco una parola che mi toglie il fiato. Un mucchio di vecchi stupidi in panciotto di flanella e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario che continuano a cantarci negli orecchi: Il dovere! Il dovere! Eh, maledizione, il dovere è sentire quello che è veramente grande, il dovere è amare quello che è veramente bello, il dovere è non accettare tutte le convenienze sociali, con il cumulo di ignominie che ci impongono.

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

I belonged to a conservative Punjabi family and I didn't want to get too close to a rich boy who drove fast cars.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. People would ask me if I was a feminist, and I didn't know how to respond. The word seemed to put guys off, but now I realise, who cares?

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced to a technocratic in-name-only veneer - reactions to Covid are a stark reminder that freedom cannot be assumed as a social norm that's deeply embedded into our institutions and our psyche.

In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

If some of the things sound a little childish, figure it out: do you think they're too childish, or do you think that if someone else saw you doing it, he would think it was childish?

Aunque ser distinta signifique ser maravillosa, de igual manera trae problemas. Quizá la solución es ser distinto a solas, escondido, en tu casa, en tu pieza, a lo más con un amigo al frente, pero nada de actuar fuera de lo normal en la calle, delante de otras personas, y mucho menos en el colegio. Si no, al final uno termina solo.

for so long I'd been told what the rules were that I couldn't see they were just rules made by men. And if men can make rules, then other men can change them.

It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.

Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.