Quotes About Norms

Cultural constraints are likely to change with time.

Violation of cultural conventions can completely disrupt an interaction.

Beber en casa era de alcohólicos. Siempre que uno bebiera públicamente, sin ocultarse, no era un borracho. Y de ahí los bares. Muchos, muchos bares.

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

You must be rendered sane according to the culture of the people.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which the norms of society had broke down.

Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy

In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'...

It might be more accurate to think of love as a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.

Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

Performativity has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.

Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money- unless you were married to it. Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. His neighbors did not find his action hasty. It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime. p.19