“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.” — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Fortunately, unlike my teachers and classmates, my parents never forced gender roles or even a ended identity on me. I grew up… — Rain Dove 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
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
“ 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
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
“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
“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
“Camouflage your soul! Hide!Hide!Hide! The gender police are here. The gender police are everywhere.” — Judy Croome 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
“In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“My throat closes against the words I can't swallow, not one more time. Because it's not true, what they're telling me--what they've… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has… — Bozoma Saint John 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
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
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
“Despite all of the social advances in women’s rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern… — Shannon M Mullen 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
“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male… — Nick Yee 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
What's amazing about this show [Westworld], and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds!… — Aristophanes 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
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
“ 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
“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
“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
“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
“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another… — Vincent Bozzino Copy Share Image
“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I think it is the masculine energy or man’s subtle, not overt, energetic influence that’s responsible for building a solid sensual feminine… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image