Quotes About Cultural norms

Im interested in those things that hover in our unconsciousnesses - class, gender, identity - until we have to think about them for whatever reason. So normal is whatevers normal for you, until its not.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

For both the capital-P public and the capital-C wife.

I waited patiently—years—for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way.

You know, Pyle, women don't want virgins. I'm not sure we do, unless we are a pathological type.

No, Lin! This is India. Nobody can take his clothes off, not even to wash his bodies. This is India. Nobody is ever naked in India. And especially, nobody is naked without clothes.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.

proper marrying age, and I would not see her

If we want to know what it means to be human, we look at Jesus. He does things we'd culturally consider feminine - like weep - and others our culture would consider masculine - like flip tables in the temple. But really all these things are just human. And since Jesus is God, these characteristics are also divine.

In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.

Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?

There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy—getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff---get undercut by having to play football.

Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

Is it true that in the future society any woman will sleep with any man she wants," asked Renée Slottern. It had started as a question, but it petered out. She did not really want to know. She merely felt a vapid wonder about how it felt to have a man one really wanted and how one went about wanting.