“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
What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest,… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read.… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Real equality for men and women needs a men’s movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“ 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
“Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Don’t we see that men’s rightful task is to go out to work and wear themselves out trying to accumulate wealth, as… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Finding The Man. Keeping The Man. Not scaring The Man, building up The Man, following The Man, soothing The Man, flattering The… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
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
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
“How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of… — Lori Duron Copy Share Image
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“ Eyebeam: What do you mean, I have “male answer syndrome”? Sally: It’s the compulsion to provide an answer to any question,… — Sam Hurt Copy Share Image
“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.” — Margaret Atwood 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 do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
“It’s time to be a woman again whose essence is grounded in her sensual feminine identity.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
