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But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.