Outdated Norms Quotes

We always live under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.

Where is the society that does not struggle along under the dead weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfathers.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.