Quotes About Norms

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

J'ai lu le Deuxième Sexe. Simone expliquait que si les femmes faisaient pipi debout, leur conception de la vie changerait. Alors j'ai essayé. Ça coulait légèrement sur ma jambe gauche. C'était un peu dégoutant. Assise, c'était bien plus simple. De pus, en tant qu'iranienne, avant d'uriner comme un homme, il fallait que j'apprenne à devenir une femme libérée et émancipée.

Et puis j'étais contrariée par tous ces actes sexuels publics. Que voulez-vous, je venais d'un pays traditionnaliste.

But as far as your virginity is concerned... Now that you are married and divorced, it's normal that you're no longer a virgin! You can make love with whomever you want, without anyone knowing! You know! There's no meter down here!

CHAPTER XX THERE ARE CONVENANCES

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

We liked being wild, but not nearly as much as we liked being acceptable.)

My girls. Girls aren't boys, you know. Boys go to school. But what do girls do? Girls are like a bunch of geese; they sit at home, eat, and wait to grow up.

The word 'actress' or 'authoress' always struck me as condescending. A doctor's a doctor, right? So I've always referred to 'actors' and 'writers,' regardless of their sex.

The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;

Le pays latins, comme les pays d'Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

psychoanalysts in particular define man as a human being and woman as a female: every time she acts like a human being, the woman is said to be imitating the male.

every time she acts like a human being, she is said to be imitating the male.

Ningún hombre consentiría en ser mujer, pero todos desean que haya mujeres.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn? And: Which is worse, not to tip when a tip has been expected; or to tip, when the tip is an insult?

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

All human 'virtue' is depraved if it is not from a heart of love to the heavenly Father- Even if the behaviour conforms to biblical norms.

The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.