288 Quotes About Gender-roles

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c'est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

Because most infants spend more time looking at female faces—because there are more women than men taking care of babies—they comprehend them better: babies, at least those raised primarily by women, tend to see female faces as individuals and male faces as a category. (Women have identities; men are just men.)

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.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both—while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.

She was flabbergasted by the backward thinking of humankind. The damaging double standards that fueled gender disparity infuriated her.

People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every time.

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

There was no point talking to women at all; even meeting their eyes felt too dangerous.When he walked past a group of women on the road - laughing and joking and making arcs against the sky - Tunde said to himself, I'm not here, I'm nothing, don't notice me, you can't see me, there's nothing here to see.