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Quotes About Social norms

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.
~ Frederick Lenz
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
~ Jack Nicholson
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
~ Louise Hay
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
~ Madame de Stael
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
~ Mary McCarthy
I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
~ Michael Ian Black
Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.
~ Michael Rosenbaum
As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.
~ Michelle Goldberg
Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.
~ Poppy Montgomery
As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
~ Valeria Mazza
Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.
~ Vantile Whitfield
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
~ Walt Whitman
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
~ William Wycherley
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
~ Jane Austen
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
~ Angela Carter
Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.
~ John Rachel
Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?
~ Alice Munro
Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.
~ Charlotte Wood
Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.
~ Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf
Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. "Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.
~ Rumi Antoinette