Russians/culture

Famous quotes containing the words russians and/or culture:

    Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told
    The streets in heaven are lined with gold.
    I ask you how things could get much worse
    If the Russians happen to get up there first;
    Wowee! pretty scary!
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.
    —Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)