Quotes About Tradition

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

We were created to be woman and man and make kids.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.