Quotes About Norms

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in my early 20s, so I never realized that makeup 'wasn't for boys,' as many social norms say.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.

The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South Bronx, which is not really in their best interests.

My lifestyle is not an opportunity for a sick-minded man to harass me. Why does society dictate a girl to live her life with certain norms? I think the perspective should be changed.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

Therefore the fiesta is not only an excess, a ritual squandering of the goods painfully accumulated during the rest of the year; it is also a revolt, a sudden immersion in the formless, in pure being. By means of the fiesta society frees itself from the norms it has established. It ridicules its gods, its principles, and its laws: it denies its own self.

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

This is the Victorian era, she said. Women didn't have to make sense.

No one at the Interior Ministry used PGP for email, because no normal human does

Under Trump, norms were violated so frequently that conflicts of interest became the rule rather than the exception. The thieves and kleptocrats, or their lawyers, really, were in control.

Himself, he said, was Norman, Miriam was Gothic. She bowed in consent even to that.

Straight people are so fucking weird.

Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"?

Parties somehow represent the rationing of fun, and that very concept depresses me. You're allowed to act like a tit at parties; therefore by implication, you're not allowed to act like a tit the rest of the time

Conventionality is not morality.

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.

They were inconveniently reasonable, those women.

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

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

The Singapore School of Thought, as some began to call it, emphasised the lack of universality of many Western political norms...Singapore's own view emphasised economic and social rights which tended to be downplayed by some advocates of political ad civil liberties.