Tan France Quotes

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

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

We used to wear a track suit and T-shirt while training. But that did not go down well with the villagers, because women are usually supposed to wear salwar kameez.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

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.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.