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Confining Quotes
On limits imposed by culture, law, and old institutions.
Something can feel confining in very different ways, and these quotes explore that across culture, animal welfare, banking, and marriage history. See our Ability quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020