Quotes About Cultural norms

Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, a gentleman couldn't go into politics. But

Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM.

Real men don't moisturise.

Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.

There have been plenty of little changes down the years but what's never been changed is that the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman.

There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

In Sweden it's not allowed to say good things about yourself.

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

She was doing what the English did. When anything embarrassing or emotional threatened to come up, one discussed the weather. Always a safe topic.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

is actually undoing the fourth commandment of Moses, which tells us to "honor your father and mother"? This commandment is necessary for the first half of life, and, one hopes, it can be possible forever. As we move into the second half of life, however, we are very often at odds with our natural family and the "dominant consciousness" of our cultures.

Fat people weren't supposed to eat anything, but they were especially not supposed to eat confectionery

She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

It seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.

Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, 'Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself'? Although in the text I read the words were written as, 'the man wiser,' but I can only suppose the scribe wrote the word wrong or meant it to be 'Elder.

How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?' 'Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.