Quotes About Cultural norms

A woman's name will always suffice, but if you'll keep your ears open in a room with men and women, you'll hear it's the call used least often.

Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

There's a reason why movie theatres don't encourage people to bring their goats.

La costumbre de saltarse posiciones en la lista estaba tan extendida que la mayoría de los moscovitas creían que nadie podía llegar al primer puesto limitándose a esperar. Un

I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me — and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

At that time, according to the conventional wisdom, girls didn't have to study; they had to learn a trade. Boys could go to high school. Girls got married, so it was a waste to spend a lot of money on them. They did have to know about a lot of things, though.

Men want a woman who is a virtuous wife, a good mother, and can do all the housework like a maid. Outside the home, she should be attractive and cultivated, and be a credit to him. In bed, she must be a nymphomaniac. What is more, Chinese men also need their women to manage their finances and earn a lot of money, so they can mingle with the rich and powerful. Modern

The specter of sexual intimacy made it rare for women to participate in this male bonding.

I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".

It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture

I have traveled alone. I am unmarried, I live without a chaperone, and I work for a living. These are not the actions of a lady,

featured a sample of women's magazine article headlines from the 1950s: "Have Babies While You're Young," "Are You Training Your Daughter to Be a Wife?" "Don't Be Afraid to Marry Young," and "The Business of Running a Home"—a collection unsurprising to post-Boomer generations accustomed to hearing about the domesticity of the past.

La liberté des Indiennes sur ce sujet ne l'embarrassait pas. Elle aurait voulu être comme elles, raconter simplement ses désirs et ses amours. Mais toute parée qu'elle fût désormais à leur image, elle n'avait pas encore quitté les lourdes pudeurs sous le couvert desquelles macèrent en Europe les plaies de l'âme.

It's unusual in a culture where adult children take care of their aging parents that Lydia's mother even had a savings account.

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Los hombres no lloran, le repetía su padre. ¿Y por qué los hombres no podían llorar? Alguna vez debía romper las reglas impuestas y con decisión se lanzó sobre su cama y sollozó sobre su almohada de borra.

there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

But let me explain my culture of origin to you, Angela, in case you have never been around White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. You need to understand that we have only one central rule of engagement, and here it is: This matter must never be spoken of again. We WASPS can apply this rule to anything -- from a moment of awkwardness at the dinner table to a relative's suicide. Asking no further questions is the song of my people.

I wish I could make a better job of my clothes. My mother taught me about weather and tides, she taught me eight languages and how to make various medicines, but she never thought to teach me to spin and weave and sew, because I was a boy. It seems silly now.

Have you noticed, how difficult it is to be improper without men?

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

This is the paradox of being white and 'seeing white', but being to all intents and purposes 'invisible' or, more appropriately, as Frankenberg, Garner, and other sociologists of 'whiteness' have suggested, 'unmarked'. In Western societies