Shifting Norms Quotes

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

What's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.

I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.

Yesterday's moderate is today's terrorist.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide

With films like 'NH-10' and 'Phillauri,' what Anushka Sharma is doing, or what Shraddha Kapoor and Vidya Balan are doing with their films, the industry is changing for women.

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.