Quotes About Cultural norms

Being fat and ugly gets tiresome...

Don't be weird just for the sake of being different.. It comes off a bit psychotic.

As the crapulent major said, A man doesn't need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own.

Ne pas aimer les femmes, chez un homme, c'est une attitude. Ne pas aimer les hommes, chez une femme, c'est une pathologie.

Rape doesn't disturb the peace, it's already part and parcel of the city.

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

In Punjabi culture a girl is paraya dhan – the property of others is the literal meaning of the phrase. Her father, then her husband, is responsible for her. She is never her own person. She is a costly expense to her parents, as a dowry is expected, and after they have spent everything on her the benefit is enjoyed by the family she marries into.

Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?

For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

A woman trying to function like a man is as ridiculous as a man trying to be like a woman. A unisex society is a senseless society—a society dangerously out of order.

While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.

half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn't have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.