288 Quotes About Gender-roles

Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.

...Makeup is for women. It's the law of nature for them to doll themselves up to get a man.""On the contrary. [...] In the natural world, it is the male of the species who is adorned with colors to attract, impress and keep his potential mate.

It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.

That was a very formidable woman," Caisa said."I seem to know a good many of those.""And you have a terrible habit of angering them," she said.

My throat closes against the words I can't swallow, not one more time. Because it's not true, what they're telling me--what they've been telling me since I was a child. There cannot be only one way to be a woman. My identity cannot be something I've never felt.

Camouflage your soul! Hide!Hide!Hide! The gender police are here. The gender police are everywhere.

Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves indispensible.

I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .