Quotes About Cultural shift

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

God is being siphoned out of the public arena. People don't even say God bless you when you sneeze anymore. I want to be able to lay a Merry Christmas on someone without its feeling like a political statement.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

I can't stand the slow pace of Jaipur anymore. I like staying in Mumbai, as everyone is on the move.

Moving to New York was about reinvention. If you didn't want that, you stayed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

the state retrained the bitter fishermen to farm clams, which they now cultivate with the latest marine science and profanity.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

I think it's important to note that, you know, we live in a time where everything's changed. The idea of blended families is now not foreign to anybody, it's actually quite commonplace.

The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.