Top Social Norms Quotes
Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre...
Charlotte Bronte
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contempt, death, decay, demons, discord, disgust, disharmony, disparity, domestic life, expectations
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri...
Jane Austen
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constancy, double standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...
Antonia Fraser
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common law, empowerment, fathers, feminism, feudalism, gender, guardianship, history, husbands, independence
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty...
Charlotte Bronte
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empathy, expectations, expression, faithfulness, feeling, fidelity, gender, gift, hypocrisy, jealousy
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...
Antonia Fraser
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empowerment, feminism, gender, history, independence, inequality, marriage, married life, matrimony, men
Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong. However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or ot...
Anonymous
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beauty, double standards, drunkenness, gender, greed, hypocrisy, immorality, lust, men, misogyny
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of...
Virginia Woolf
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dignity, double standards, empowerment, encroachment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, liberty, misogyny, morality
No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you.She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice be...
Charlotte Bronte
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courtship, dignity, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, independence, inferiority, integrity, marriage
I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now...
Virginia Woolf
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dignity, dreams, empowerment, equality, feminism, fiction, gender, opportunities, poetry, self determination
Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compro...
Abhijit Naskar
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bible, brainy, gita, harmony, inspirational, inspiring, philosophy, quran, rational thinking, religious diversity