Quotes About Norms

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I think it's always been normal for humans to compare themselves to each other, but we're so hyper-connected all the time now that it's driving us insane.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

One might object that belly dancing originates in a culture which is foreign to the West and therefore unsuited to Western women, yet this is precisely what makes it an even more enriching experience, apart from the fact that it is perfectly suited to the female body. By experiencing unfamiliar movements, a woman can allow her body to break through cultural norms.

When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

When it comes to transformation or deformation, organizational cultures are rarely neutral. For the most part cultural norms will support and catalyze or work against the process of spiritual transformation. Cultivating a culture

Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.

Tak d?ugo byli?cie antykonformistami, a? wreszcie upad?y ostatnie normy, przeciw którym mo?na si? by?o jeszcze buntowa?. Dla mnie nie zostawili?cie ju? nic, nic! Brak norm sta? si? wasz? norm?. A ja mog? si? buntowa? tylko przeciw wam, czyli przeciwko waszemu rozpasaniu.

In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.

Enquanto a língua é um rio caudaloso, longo e largo, que nunca se detém em seu curso, a gramatica normativa é apenas um igapó, uma grande poça de água parada, um charco, um brejo, um terreno alagadiço, á margem da língua.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve?...Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

I did not yet know that my lack of enjoyment - my distaste, my suffering even - would be considered normal and even desirable by my husband. He was one of those men who felt that if a woman did not experience sexual pleasure this was all to the good, because then she would not be liable to wander off seeking it elsewhere.

At our school, pink was for spring and summer, plum was for fall and winter, white was for special days: Sundays and celebrations. Arms covered, hair covered, skirts down to the knee before you were five and no more than two inches above the ankle after that, because the urges of men were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed.

Sex has been domesticated, stripped of the promised mystery, added to the category of the merely expected. It's just what is done, mundane as hockey. It's celibacy these days that would raise eyebrows.

I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.