Gender Roles Quotes

Gender Roles Quote of the day

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.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

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've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

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

O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And later a letter to the powers-that-bedemanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

Studies show that girls - especially smarter ones - have severe problems in the area of self-confid

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

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

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not, Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

Despite all of the social advances in women’s rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being, " she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

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

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage, " [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

...What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places where women actually shaved their legs!

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

It's time to undo Rahim.

Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later.

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

How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.