Stephanie Coontz Quotes

I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else.

All my friends are super normal.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I try to be as normal as I can.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

As a society, we're not squeamish about suggesting norms for what individuals should weigh, how much money they must earn in order not be judged impoverished, and how much cholesterol is okay in their blood.... In education, we have lots of tests, but we don't really have any norms.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

I am the mainstream.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

To me, I feel completely, um, utterly normal. I do everything everybody else does.

I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.

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

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I don't want to be like Donald Trump or anything like it... I'm different than some people.

I think always in F1 the team mate is the first one you get compared to - which is normal.

As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.