A. J. Pritchard Quotes

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.

I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.