Kacey Musgraves Quotes

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

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

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

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.

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

It's interesting, I'm from a really conservative, suburban town, and a majority of my family are very patriarchal. I mean, I love my family members, but they're slightly misogynistic, very closed-minded. But I'm sure a lot of us have families like that.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

This Republican party of Lincoln has become a theocracy.