I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
Small towns harbor small imaginations.
When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.
Even my conservative friends consider me conservative.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
My dad felt old school.
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
