Culture
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
- Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
- Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
- In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
- Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
“When women finally get liberated, they’ll do the same that men do—dog eat dog— that’s what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.”
—Alice Neel (1900–1984)
“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)