Quotes About Cultural norms

In the States actors get their own trailers, but in Korea all the actors group up in one room, and stay there together the whole day.

Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have?

But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Destinul femeilor arabe este un lucru ciudat, cel putin in satul meu. Il accepti in modul cel mai firesc cu putinta. Nici nu ne trece prin gand sa ne revoltam. Ma mult, nici nu stim ce e revolta. Stim sa plangem, sa ne ascundem, sa mintim daca trebuie ca sa evitam batul, dar sa ne revoltam - niciodata. Pur si simplu pentru ca nu exista alt loc unde sa poti trai decat la tata sau la sot. Este de neconceput sa traiesti singura.

Dragostea este un mister pentru mine deocamdata. La noi se vorbeste despre casatorie, nu despre dragoste. Despre ascultare si supunere totala, nu despre relatii de iubire intre barbat si femeie. Doar despre o relatie sexuala obligatorie intre o fecioara si sotul ei, pentru care a fost cumparata. Altminteri, uitarea sau moartea. Atunci unde e iubirea?

The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this without threatening the marriage. In a study of 109 societies, anthropologists found that only 48 forbade extramarital sex to both husbands and wives.27

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Ladies did not participate in 'situations'.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.

I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'

More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

Where everyone stinks, no one stinks.

As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with some sons and mothers: the man will himself be cross in public and think nothing of it, nor will he greatly mind a little crossness on the part of the woman; but let her show agitation before any spectator, he is instantly reduced to a coward's slavery. Women understand that ancient weakness, of course; for it is one of their most important means of defense, but can be used ignobly.

The Russians wanted to enjoy the peace and prosperity of a civilized world, without the encumbrances of following any of its laws.

A ridiculous oversight I mean to address at the earliest opportunity. Women dress to please men. Why shouldn't men then be in on the process from the beginning?" "Looking attractive pleases oneself," she replied in English. "It is a man's good fortune if the result pleases him, as well.

She supposed a properly bred London lady would be expected to faint in shock at the sight of a shirtless gentleman, but he looked far too delicious for her to close her eyes.

Whenever I thought about men and men, and women and women, I could never really imagine what they would actually be doing.

I couldn't stand the idea of women having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

To be valued as a member of masculine Moroccan society, a man is expected to put in his time sitting, thinking, talking, or doing nothing at all.