Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

A man who goes into a country must comply with the ceremonies in use there.

When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you're not constantly craving breakfast every second of every day, you're not a real American. Y'know what, let's throw the Canadians in there, too.

What it means to look like a woman or man changes regionally - from mannerisms to clothes to posture to makeup to even your vocals - so I just observe, and I replicate.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Saw myself naked in front of a mirror a couple days ago - that's not the joke, that's what we called the setup. I saw myself naked, and I said, 'Holy cow, I'm 'The White Man.' I've heard a lot of bad things about you, cracka.