Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous HuxleyIt is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfIt’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.
AuroraIf he invited you out, he’s got to pay.
Beyonce KnowlesI didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher HitchensPeople have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark ZuckerbergBlack men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘
Marilyn MonroeMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeI have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam ChomskyWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI didn’t just invent saying offensive things.
EminemA businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Alice MunroUnderstand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
Robert GreeneNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltI’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.
Angelina JolieWomen must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia EarhartI’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘
Alice WalkerWhat is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
BuddhaWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallLife is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.
Tom BradyThere are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘
Marilyn MonroeI definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.
Kurt CobainYou know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher HitchensThe unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘
Matthew McConaugheyShame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Joe BidenI have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine AlbrightWe’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
Anthony HopkinsI don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
Anthony BourdainToo often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston ChurchillIf the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
Jordan PetersonI don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
Angelina JolieMy mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank ZappaAt a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George CarlinMen weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady GagaThere is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.
Herbert HooverIt’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon RamsayIt’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.
Christopher HitchensPeople who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
Kevin HartA man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn MonroeTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel JohnsonI should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George EliotAt the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
Kevin HartBoys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne FrankIn the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Billie EilishNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert CamusMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaIt is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
AristotleSomewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma BombeckAll cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
Brian EnoThe more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark TwainWhen people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady GagaThe English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?
Brian EnoFame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch SpinozaWhen everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.
Kendrick LamarWell, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.
Harper LeeMen have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard ShawI think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.
Kevin Hart