Quotes About Social norms

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Boy: Why can't tampons talk? Girl: Because they're stuck up bi...es.

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de acuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su moral, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

All married women are not wives.

Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

On a larger cultural level, where we live also determines our timeliness. For example, in Australia, you can be assured that your guests will show up thirty minutes late, often with friends in tow that they haven't told you about. In Switzerland, guests are always on time, and if they plan on being five minutes late, they will let you know. Japanese guests will show up a half hour before they are supposed to, and in Israel, they will be forty-five minutes late. Our

Whenever I visit the United States, for example, one of the first things I notice is that no one ever touches one another, especially the men. In America, touch is perceived as sexual. At the same time, American culture overemphasizes sports, especially football, which is one of the few places where men are given permission to touch, slap, wrestle, tackle and hug one another.

The Weather simply didn't exist in Colombia. I later found out that no one asks or talks about the weather in Medellín, as it never varies, nor are there any television meteorologists. Every day the temperature is in the mid-seventies, with sunlight and an occasional cloud cover. Yet even in Southern California, where the same is true, natives talk about the weather constantly. As

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.

Be depressed on Mondays and happy on Saturdays. Not the other way round. It will annoy people.