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Societal Pressure Quotes

“The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want.”

Identity Confidence Empowerment Resistance Boldness Self Expression Personal Freedom Societal Pressure

Book:Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.”

Love Relationships Marriage Wife Husband Pressure Divorce Separation Wedding Spouse Single Matrimony Peer Pressure Wedlock Marry Vows Wedding Vows Societal Pressure

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Come join me in the land of who gives a flying leap”

Society Not Caring Societal Pressure Outside Voices Societycking Out The Negative

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Maria was frightened. “Say nothing to anybody,” she told Catalina, “not even to Uncle Domingo. I will talk to him after supper and he will decide what had better be done. Now in heaven’s name clean the carrots or we shall have no soup to eat.” Catalina was not satisfied with this, but her mother bade her be quiet and do as she was told. Presently Domingo came in. He was not drunk, but neither was he sober, and he was in high spirits. He was a man who liked to hear himself talk and, while they had supper, for Catalina’s benefit he held forth loquaciously on the events of the day.”

Secret Mediocrity Having A Hard Time Societal Pressure Coming To Terms Averageness

Book:Catalina

Source: Catalina

“Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently than the others. I expected to see him leap over bushes with his toes pointing like arrows, but all he ever did was walk.”

Conformity Mail Toes Arrows Others Walk Mailman At Night Dance Teacher Societal Pressure

Book:Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“The bizarre thing about the industry is: you were discovered because you were unique. What was special about you when you were discovered, they do their damnedest to remove, not unlike what traditional society does to children.”

Hollywood Hollywood Culture Societal Pressure Society Problems

Book:Brave

Source: Brave

“I was thirty-one at this point. I was deep in the grips of Hollywood conditioning. The thing is, I was always playing roles that were younger, at least five years younger, which amplified my twisted perception of aging. You have done something wrong! You have lived! You start feeling crazier with each birthday that passes.”

Aging Aging Gracefully Hollywood Culture Societal Expectations Aging Women Societal Pressure

Book:Brave

Source: Brave

“When I hear someone say they are not creative, I immediately think, you poor thing, they got to you. At what point was your creativity stolen from you? How old were you when they homogenized your mind?Because that is what non-creative thinking is: homogenized though.”

Creativity Creative Thinking Societal Pressure Homogenization

Book:Brave

Source: Brave

“That poor girl's been brainwashed into thinking her beauty is all she's worth, because from the time she was a little child she's been getting compliments about her beauty. And it becomes something you think you owe other people.”

Beauty Womanhood Beautiful Women Being Beautiful Societal Expectations Societal Pressure

Book:Brave

Source: Brave

“I think unfortunately society nowadays picks upon the fact that we should all fit into this perfect little box, perfect little label. Everybody has to be labelled, because that's what makes human beings feel comfortable, I know what that is. If they can't do that, they start thinking that's obviously not right.”

Cruelty Labels Bullying Societal Pressure Group Pressure Cyberbullyng People In Groups

Author:BBC Radio 4

“Men are so often made to feel inadequate and stupid for having feelings and problems and expressing their doubts and fears. Fight Club was the pressure cooker that lanced the boil of the pent-up existential crisis in masculinity that continues even more so to this day.”

Mental Health Masculinity Toxic Masculinity Societal Expectations Fight Club Societal Pressure Chuck Palahniuk Shaming Men Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Witty Strong And Silent Type

Author:Stewart Stafford

“In our culture, busyness is often worn as a badge of honor.”

Mindfulness Self Awareness Mental Health Productivity Modern Life Burnout Work Life Balance Societal Pressure Busyness Culture Hustle Culture

Book:Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction