Quotes About Culture

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.