“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles. — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
“Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“Camouflage your soul! Hide!Hide!Hide! The gender police are here. The gender police are everywhere.” — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“ He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never… — Antoine Laurain Copy Share Image
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
“What's 'suitable for kids' defines what sort of kids we as a society want. And right now, the girls society wants are… — Jason Porath Copy Share Image
“We met at all hours, whenever a new emergency demanded attention. It was not unusual to find some of us talking things… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are… — Desiree Akhavan Copy Share Image
People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we're seeing that… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
“I'm going to go out on a limb here. I've thought a lot about this one, as a feminist, and as an… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“ Who Suffers? If you have social anxiety, you are not alone. The National Comorbidity Study found social phobia to be the… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“The modifications of the family structure by this state of affairs is important. The couple feels isolated, surrounded by children who cost… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“In the time we spend reeling in confusion, grasping at straws trying to piece our egos together, we forget to acknowledge some… — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
“Z ipes’s concerns overlap with those of feminists such as Marcia Lieberman, Karen Rowe, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and, to a lesser… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
