288 Quotes About Gender-roles
- Author Terry Pratchett
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You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads.
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- Author Sam Killermann
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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.
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- Author Brian Spellman
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All surgery and no makeup make Jack a dull girl.
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- Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have—I’ve neverthought it made much sense to leave such a crucial thing—the ability to nourish oneself—in the hands of others.
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- Author Riane Eisler
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[If we pursue] a positive economic future...this will entail facing up to the fact that our 'masculine' militarism is the most energy-intensive entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy directly into waste and destruction without any useful, intervening fulfillment of basic human needs.
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- Author Wiss Auguste
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She pitied these women trapped in this semblance of happiness. She pitied their daughters being raised in this modernized cult of domesticity.
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- Author Heidi Sopinka
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I've never understood why everyone know know that women are the ones who convey things in the most interesting ways, I say. We have always observed. We have been used to no audience and that has given us room to really see.
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- Author Dasha Grady
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In the living room, the men smoke and snack and in the kitchen the women prepare the dinner. Often times they even bought the groceries themselves. Yet when the woman speaks, the man asks the woman: “And so, what do you bring to the table?
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- Author Soraya Chemaly
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The ugly truth is that more people are still motivated by the desire to prioritize men's income generating and reputations than they are by the desire to ensure women's rights and safety.
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