Quotes About Cultural norms

El libertinaje femenino paga costos mientras el masculino cobra méritos.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

It's a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de a cuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su mora, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.``It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

None of it's about what God wants, it's just about men wanting to run everything and girls like me knowing their place. Behaving PROPERLY.

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

Any asshole with a Masters in Social Work can put on a turban and start issuing fatwas about whom you can and whom you can't mail meat to, but it takes real balls to turn a brunette without a cranium into a blond.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.