Quotes About Cultural norms

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.

A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the objectification of a woman's body that we often see in Western culture another kind of oppression?

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking the law.' 'Why?' 'Because it's the law.'

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

My parents are conservative. They really weren't in support of us dating before marriage.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Cultures have norms that reflect centuries of shared beliefs and ideals. Do not expect to scoff at such things with impunity. You will be punished somehow, even if just through isolation — a position of real powerlessness.

A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn

and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.

will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is

it just proved that I think like an American. Violence is dandy, but God forbid you show sex on stage.

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.

Men do not change their names with marriage, and it had always struck me as odd that women were expected to do so. Perhaps

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.