Quotes About Cultural norms

Desacuerdo número no: los mexicanos no estamos de acuerdo en cumplir la ley, ni en las leyes que queremos cumplir.

She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.

When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.