Quotes About Cultural norms

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

A man is able to take me to a restaurant, but he's not able to take me home to mom. Society is still not at a place yet where they see us as family.

In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.

When the more lurid popular newspapers in England mentioned men in women's clothing 'nigger-dancing' at Chelsea parties, the 'blame' was laid on the frontline custom of soldiers donning dresses for troop shows.

Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being able to wear bells around my ankles and silver necklaces around my neck, but not any more, not since I had learned what they represented for the man who gave them. A necklace was no prettier than a piece of of rope that ties a goat to a tree, depriving it of freedom.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

I actually visit the temple every day but I genuinely don't understand the importance that people give to their birthdays or any special day, be it a festival or a birthday.

Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas was that my dad worked, she was supposed to stay home and take care of the kids, and that was that. There really weren't other opportunities for her, and most of them were volunteer opportunities.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

I don't find movies shocking.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Society becomes how we behave.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn't pretty.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Tradition has it that four categories of person incur the anger of God: 'Men who dress themselves as women and women who dress themselves as men, those who sleep with animals and those who sleep with men.' Homosexuality (liw??) incurs the strongest condemnation. It is identified with zin? and it is advocated that the most horrible punishment should be applied to those who indulge in it.