Gender-roles Quotes

Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is u...

The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being," she retorted ...

You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bun...

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write,...

What excited and challenged her shipmates horrified the churched women and each set believed the oth...

He should be very proud of Andrew if he got a scholarship, he said. She would be just as proud of hi...

They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She...

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, ...

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all th...

Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no ...

It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as ...

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by pa...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And lat...

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically ...

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable....

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't ...

Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should...

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach th...

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotenc...

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use an...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encoura...

From the moment we take our first breath (and sometimes even before that, what with sonic imaging te...

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I...

Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental....

Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passiv...

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beau...

Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life...

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift...

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...