Quotes About Conformity

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

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.

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Some are born to play it safe Others are born to live it wild.

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.