Quotes About Norms

Fallowing the custom, my great-grandfather was married young, at fourteen, to a woman six years his senior. It was considered one of the duties of a wife to help bring up her husband.

There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because the range was so narrow, people were always looking out for the tiniest variations. It was a real test of ingenuity to look different and attractive, and yet similar enough to everyone else so that nobody with an accusing finger could pinpoint what exactly was heretical.

If covering our bodies with clothes represents a cultural step forward, there is no guarantee that in the future masks will not be taken equally for granted.

If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if you go walking around the streets without trousers, no matter how new your shoes and how elegant your coat, it's enough to raise a big hue and cry. Enlightened society is a kind of trouser society.

Ta?u, ja atmetam dzeju, reli?ija ir mor?lais kodekss, kas tiek izpausts caur le?end?m, m?tiem un vis?da veida liter?riem sacer?jumiem ar m?r?i izveidot tic?jumu, v?rt?bu un normu sist?mu,ar kuras pal?dz?bu regul?t k?du kult?ru vai sabiedr?bu.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.