Social expectations Quotes

"If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must make sense to them can be just an attempt to control us"

"People like you to be something, preferably what they are"

"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."

"I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors—the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things; neighbors want your time"