Quotes About Cultural norms

Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They are what separate the civilized man from the barbarian.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public. So, she couldn't pursue her musical aspirations.

Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is the culture and society.

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.

Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, take care of the children, clean the house and cook a bit and the men need the chairs. The men sit because they are worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world's pro less and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.

and if I were in America I could say, I love you, Dad, the way they do in the films, but you can't say that in Limerick for fear you might be laughed at. You're allowed to say love you God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!

After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.

Boys will be boys, people said, as if being a cruel, destructive monster was a rite of passage.

If the shar'ia required that a woman suspected of adultery should be stoned to death, the Bhagvad Gita establishes a mindset by referring to women and low castes as sinfully born, and khap panchayats do the rest.

it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even