People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a…

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.…

— Karen Russell

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

— Johan Huizinga

I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is…

— Margaret Cho

From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we…

— Russell Peters

It breaks my heart when I see young women swept up in today's celebrity culture that encourages them to give themselves away for the…

— Shannon Bream

...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing…

— Joan Anderson

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's…

— Amy Grant

“our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or…

— Amir Levine

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner…

— David Brooks

“Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to…

— Holly Mosier

There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this…

— Porochista Khakpour

“We have reared a generation of incredibly bright young people, who have been fed a diet of instant gratification, seasoned with self-absorbed heroes who…

— Rick Rigsby

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.

— David Lammy

It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be…

— Patricia Arquette