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Quotes About Culture

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
~ Erich von Stroheim
Back home the black women are all beautiful
~ Amiri Baraka
Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.
~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
~ Larry McMurtry
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
~ Sofia Vergara
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
~ Lauren Mayberry
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
~ Bertrand Russell
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
~ W. Somerset Maugham
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
~ Riane Eisler
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
~ Lin Yutang
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
~ Katherine Dunn
Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
~ Evan Esar
Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.
~ Mitch Horowitz
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.
~ Cassandra Clare
More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
~ Nancy Birdsall
I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?
~ John Layfield
Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good.
~ Bill Maher
I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.
~ Lynsey Addario
There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.
~ Prabal Gurung
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.
~ Malina Suliman
I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss