Quotes About Cultural norms

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don't hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings.

Indians expect to be force-fed when they visit other homes, and they relish the attention. In fact, Indians of my grandmother's generation think it rude and walk away in a huff if the host doesn't entreat them to eat, eat, and eat some more.

impunerea frumuse?ii drept condi?ie a accept?rii sociale

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Love is just an institution.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world.

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an antipatriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved. I

We learn to love men more because they will not love us. If they dared to love us, in patriarchal culture they would cease to be real "men.

From the moment little boys are taught they should not cry or express hurt, feelings of loneliness, or pain, that they must be tough, they are learning how to mask true feelings. In worst-case scenarios they are learning how to not feel anything ever.

No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. Yet parents do this all the time in our culture. Children are told that they are loved even though they are being abused.

Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples.

gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization

Civilization checks impulse not only through forethought, which is a self-administered check, but also through law, custom, and religion.

It is held that no woman can have a good moral influence unless she is or pretends to be indifferent to the male sex.

I was raised in a normal Gujarati style with all the restrictions and reservations.

Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.

'Desperate Housewives' - there's no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were 'Desperate Househusbands,' they would shut ABC down.