Quotes About Norms

Ritual might be an acceptable term, if shorn of its overtly religious connotations.For me,breaking taboos became nothing less than a stylistic means. I allowed my body, my self, to be pushed into such extreme situations that certain norms of social behaviour could only appear utterly absurd to me.

We are creatures trapped in culture.

a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.

But it's different with a man. You don't expect him to be a virgin.

You will have to live among Americans, and they despise most freedoms, so conform.

Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.

If dirty words frighten you," said Giovanni, "I really do not know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Men don't apologize to ladies. Whatever they do is correct.

I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.

I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable wearing just, like, regular stuff.

When I'm a lady, I'm a lady. Can you imagine walking into a men's room and seeing a beautiful goddess standing at the urinal? It would be as much uncomfortable for them as it is for us.

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.

I never really understood why guys wear boxers underneath swim trunks.

As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.

When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.