288 Quotes About Gender-roles

Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with.

I like being a girl. I just want to be the one who says what that means.

You gave me a role to play in, I give you a casket to spread in.

When we got to the house he opened the trash-can lid and tossed the baseball mitts inside."Bye, Andrew," I said softly."Bye, son," Dad agreed, as we went inside.

Most of the parents who came to the school were full-time mothers and housewives; most of the villagers offering their opinions were retired, elderly and male. It was another enactment of the ancient dialogue, its lines written centuries ago, between the entreating voices of women, and the oblivious, overbearing dismissiveness of old men.

Gender schemas... simplify the world around us, but they also reproduce problematic discrimination.

There is nothing constitutionally or biologically barring men from being nurturers as a primary social function... Biology, here, is clearly adapting to social norms, not the other way around.

Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women - with babies to protect from harm - have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.

Sons figured out they were bigger and never forgot it. Sons didn't care about the world they left for their sons or for their daughters, although they said they did when the time came to run for office.