Quotes About Culture

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

Old women with mobile phones look wrong.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.