Quotes About Culture

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.

Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

As women go, so goes civilization.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.