288 Quotes About Gender-roles

We're like Romeo and Juliet.""We're both going to die?" he asks in alarm."Smart Romeo and Juliet.""You're going to kill my cousin?" He seems less alarmed about this."I take it you don't like your cousin?""He's a bit of an asshole, if I'm being honest.""I'm glad you've embraced being Juliet.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value

But she saw nothing in my eyes—she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house.

[dice Valeriana, criada de la familia de Celia](...) a mí se me hace que toos los hombres juntos parlando de lo que no entienden, son los que arman las revoluciones... Las mujeres, unas mejor y otras peor, saben cómo arreglar su casa... Si los hombres tienen que arreglar el mundo, ¿por qué no les enseñan?, digo yo.

For every woman you know who has been given substandard treatment by her parents, used by her friend or boyfriend, abused by her husband, discriminated by her employers and ridiculed by society, I know a man who has been burdened with family responsibility since childhood, humiliated by his girlfriend, bullied by his employers, pushed by society and harassed by his wife. Everybody is fighting their own battle.

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

Someone will always pop up to say, "You would be more effective if you were nicer." "You would have a more receptive audience if you adjusted your tone." "You catch more flies with honey." Well, I don't want flies. The most likable woman in the world is crawling with fucking flies.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

You sound like a Renaissance man,” I said. “I am,” Derek said. “I don’t care about how I’m supposed to act because I’m a guy. I do what I do because it’s the right thing to do as a human, not by gender.”- Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow