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#culture

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #culture




Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.


Amy Tan


#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.


Andrew Greeley


#being #born #catholic #culture #italy

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.


Susan Griffin


#economically #feel #female #force #had

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.


George Grosz


#bourgeoisie #collapsing #culture #defend #keep

You have to work at creating your own culture.


Mitch Albom


#culture #own #work #you #your

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.


Todd Barry


#culture #i #know #much #pirate

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.


Cheri K. Erdman


#culture #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.


Naomi Wolf


#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.


Thomas Mann


#culture #possessions #you

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.


Neil Tennant


#being #broadly #brought #camp #culture






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