David Soul Quotes

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

There's a rigid template a first lady has to fit into. You're either the Dragon Lady or the Happy Homemaker.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have kids?' And I feel like that's completely unfair.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

The honest truth is I care so much less about my hair than everyone in America, obviously.

Around 19, I got a girl pregnant. I really didn't want to get married, but I was raised with the belief to marry that person and take care of our child.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

I don't have a visa. The only thing I can do where I can leave the country and come back is if I get married.

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.