Linda Ellerbee Quotes

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

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?

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?