288 Quotes About Gender-roles

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Maybe both of our societies are messed up, and they each only think one type of person is really a person. And the type of person they think is really a person is allowed to show imperfections and age ... whereas the type of person they think is an object should show no signs of being a person.

To borrow a metaphor from the kitchen sink… Children form strong opinions easily. They soak up information from their parents, school, and the media, and repeat it back to the world. So when you don’t look or act like what everyone has been told is the norm, you get proverbially barfed on a lot.

i am relieved.wheni see the feminine presencein a man’s eyes.it meanshe is a peacei do nothavetobring to him.–– ease

If there are real men, I haven't met them yet.

to the two men who yelled: “that’s a man in a dress! heyeveryone that’s a man in a dress!” while pointing at meon sixth avenue:i wanted to turn around and point back, shout: “hey everyone that’s an insecure man, that’s an insecureman! that’s an insecure man!

A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him.

I like domestic stuff,"he tells me, his voice falling to a sudden romance-novel huskiness. So fuck a butler. Men, it bears repeating, are so weird.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.