Quotes About Cultural norms

In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.

Nem toda mulher gosta de apanhar, só as normais.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

Every society reproduces its culture, its norms, its underlying assumptions, its modes of organizing experience— in the individual, in the form of personality.

But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.

The truth is, many people do not consciously choose monogamy; society chooses it for them, and it becomes the default.

Nothing is ever a lady's fault. - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

Only Mary Queen of Scots challenged the prevailing orthodoxy when she wore white to mourn the death of Lord Darnley in 1567, earning the title of 'The White Queen'.

It is not the way of a Comanche to beat his woman," he rasped. "Just as it is not his way to let her go away from him.

women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.

The women have been told it's written in the Koran that they must do these things," she said. She could tell them it wasn't but, as an outsider and a woman, her word meant little against the word of the village sheik.

Femininity unfolds naturally, whereas masculinity must be achieved; and here is where the male ritual cult steps in.

Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural." —Pierre Bourdieu1

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

We are all trained to be female impersonators.

Whether by dowry murders in India, honor killings in Egypt, or domestic violence in the United States, records show that women are most likely to be beaten or killed at home and by men they know. Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for woman than the road. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self willed journey-and to be welcomed when she comes home.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

But if women are supposed to be led by men and there aren't any men to lead them, what happens then? What happens then?

Men have to think about so many things. Women only have to think about men.