“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.--Mark Twain”

“When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it.”

“The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.”

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

“Ayolah, ini soal kemampuan da kredibilitas. Bukan soal kelamin apa yang ada diantara selangkangan.”

“Cinta itu bukan milik arjuna atau cleopatra. Tapi milik ayah-ibu atau kakek-nenek kita. Saat rambut mulai memutih dan jalan mulai tertatih, biarlah cinta lulus terujih. Dan yang mereka pertengkarkan hanyalah, siapa yang lebih mencintai siapa...”

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”