I'd rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.
In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another.
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.
I come from a very conventional and non-political background.
I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.
We want the game to be attractive to a new audience, but you have to be careful because there are certain traditions this game upholds. Silence over the swing, that's always been there. That's not understood by those who don't play golf.
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.
The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
