Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

It is a lot to learn, and unique, but it is commonplace here in Atlanta where the man takes care of things and the woman becomes a homemaker, and later on in the relationship, a mother, which isn't the things that I ever considered. I think Cody thought that I would want that for my life since he grew up in that, but that is just not me.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

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.

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

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

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

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

My mom said, 'You are reckless, and you need to get married.' And I was like, 'Okay.'

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

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