Frank Crowninshield Quotes

My parents were very strict with me when it came to boys and dating.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

Are we solving the world's problems by allowing women to make the first move on a dating app? No. But I do believe we are helping to change some very archaic norms.

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

If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!

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.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

There is too little courtship in the world.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

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.

I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no - it was the Eisenhower period, and no parent wanted their kid going steady, so it wasn't a thing that you could endorse as proper behavior on the air.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

I am not in the favour of a girl running after a guy. My traditional thinking is that a guy should pursue first. Personally, also, I would never run after a guy.

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.