The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
“Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“...Makeup is for women. It's the law of nature for them to doll themselves up to get a man." "On the contrary.… — Dawn Flemington Copy Share Image
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
“I know nothing of being a wife, but I have learned much about the running and maintenance of an estate. It may… — Denise Domning Copy Share Image
“What matters that I was born a woman, if I can cure your misfortunes? I pay my share of tolls and taxes,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“The Islamic world can be viewed as an onion-layered multiple dictatorship: the dictatorship of political dynasties like the Mubarak, Gaddafi, Hussein, Ben… — Hamed Abdel-Samad Copy Share Image
I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
“Foremost, we need a paradigm shift in cultural attitudes towards gender stereotypes. Everyone—both men and women —needs to step outside of their… — Alisa Melekhina Copy Share Image
Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Well, I was raised in the south, so it's like Bible belt vibes. I went to Catholic school, so I had a… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is unchangeable, “natural” in the sense… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
“...What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places… — Peggy Orenstien Copy Share Image
For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
“College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Ladies, let me tell you a secret: traditional men care more about how feminine you look and carry yourself. On the other… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is crucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championing… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
“Turns out, I wasn't the only one struggling with doubt. I wasn't the only one questioning my church's position on homosexuality and… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a… — Arlie Hochschild Copy Share Image
“I’d be transported over the rainbow to a place where gender roles were irrelevant and it was acceptable for boys to wear… — Culver Connor McCall Copy Share Image
The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in… — Le1f Copy Share Image
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image