“Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to… — Miriam Karmel Copy Share Image
“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important… — Maria Konnikova 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
I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“Femininity is now being integrated into the sensual world. It can no longer stand as its own entity in this new era.… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You should have seen the costumes for the last few prom themes: Pimps and their srteet ho's; CEOs and their office ho's;… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
“I wanted to be a woman, but that seemed to me to be a world to which I was to be eternally… — Maya Angelou 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
“The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their… — Bill Farrel 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
“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
“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
“(...) 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
“(...) 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
“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men.… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“The third group called to silence is women. This group is not composed of all women all the time but rather of… — Alan G. Padgett 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
“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna… — Radclyffe Hall 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
“It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.” — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17” — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont… — James Baldwin 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
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
“I think it is a man’s subtle, not overt, energetic influence that’s responsible for building a solid sensual feminine identity.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
“new forms of contraception, new methods of child rearing, and new forms of education and public welfare have provoked a fundamental renegotiation… — David Christian Copy Share Image