Cultural Expectations Quotes

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Angelika Regossi
“Marriage was explained to me as a bargain—be good, be quiet, be grateful. Then I saw what it would cost my face.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
tags: coming-of-age, cultural-expectations, female-identity, hidden-violence, literary-fiction, loss-of-autonomy, marriage-and-control, patriarchy, social-injustice, women-s-experience
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Elaine N. Aron
“It was as if [highly sensitive subjects] found it natural to look beyond their cultural expectations to how things "really are.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
tags: cultural-expectations, high-sensitivity, highly-sensitive-subjects, how-things-really-are, looking-beyond, nature, sensory-processing-sensitivity, sps
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