Quotes About Tradition

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.