Social-norms Quotes

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while anothe...

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabri...

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete...

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...