“Media has changed the way we interact with one another and what we spend our time doing. Our social norms have changed.… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think society has changed and women's sport has reaped the benefits from it. Women's sport pushes those social norms as… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity. The one… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Over the course of the last three decades, however, barriers to power have weakened at a very fast pace. They are now… — Moisés Naím Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It seems like everyone these days is putting on a mask to feel beautiful, trying to fit into some pre-established norms of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image