Quotes about Norms

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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciou — Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone. — Ashly Lorenzana
It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of. — Amit Abraham
The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool of — Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors
But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the — Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories
A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leade — Abhijit Naskar
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be — Jane Austen, Persuasion
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine cr — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The gre — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certain — John Gower, Confessio Amantis
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sak — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successf — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
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 — Anonymous, Dives And Pauper
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such t — Augustine of Hippo, Sermons 1-19