Quotes About Culture

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.

Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.