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Quotes About Culture

Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.
~ Hockson Floin
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
~ Patricia Duncker
Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?""Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left.
~ Camilla Isley, I Wish for You
Men marry. Women wed.
~ Raheel Farooq
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Gender Quotes are social disease.
~ nugas
I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .
~ Ali Shariati
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.
~ Ava DuVernay
Melanin Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose.
~ Stephanie Lahart
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
~ Iris Murdoch
If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.
~ Santosh Kalwar
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.
~ Charlotte Wood
The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.
~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.
~ Wendy Shalit
EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
~ Ameya Agrawal
One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.
~ Joan Smith, Misogynies
Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I listen to a lot of standup comics.
~ ContraPoints
I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.
~ Joe Lonsdale
I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
~ Jesmyn Ward
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
~ Noam Chomsky