Gender Roles Quotes

• people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  People, Roles, Common

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• I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

  Fred Ward

  Women, Struggle, Thinking

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• I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

  Miranda Kerr

  Men, Individuality, Roles

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

  Patti Stanger

  Real, Men, Roles

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• Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

  Robert Webb

  Men, Practice, Feminism

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• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Masculine And Feminine, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but I think calling oneself a feminist in the past may have been inimical because feminists in the '70s were the first to really challenge deeply embedded gender roles and demand concrete political and economic rights. They were asking for rights that seemed like a direct threat to those in power - they were asking for equality in a society that didn't have it in an obvious way. They were put down and villainized because they were seen as threatening.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Past, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.

  Julie Bindel

  Real, Play, Squares

  "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Men, May

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• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Confused, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Two, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Males, Female, Roles

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, West, Culture

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

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• For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Kids, Men, Careers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Animal, Ignorant

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• claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mother, Children, Fun

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• The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.

  Le1f

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Home, People, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Roles, Gender

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

  Alison Pill

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military.

  Tanya Biank

  Husband, Couple, Military

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What's amazing about this show [Westworld], and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, [Dolores] she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Party, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Men, Worry

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• As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Country, Successful, Roles

  "Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut". Book by Melissa Ladd Teed, 1999.

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