Quotes About Gender

It was going to be difficult for Maud to get out of the house alone. Like all upper-class ladies, she was not supposed to go anywhere unescorted. Men pretended this was because they were so concerned to protect their women, but in truth it was a means of control. No doubt it would remain until women won the vote.

A woman's life was a house of closed doors: she could not be an apprentice, she could not study at the university, she could not be a priest or a physician, or shoot a bow or fight with a sword, and she could not marry without submitting herself to the tyranny of her husband.

Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different.

L'homme qui prépare les onguents et les médecines a pour nom apothicaire. Lorsque c'est une femme qui exerce cette activité, on l'appelle sorcière.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

She loved his seriousness. Most men, even quite clever ones, became silly when they talked to women. Walter spoke to her just as intelligently as he spoke to Robert or Fitz, and—even more unusually—he listened to her answers.

Women wanted a new deal, and they expected him to know, without being told, what the deal was, and to agree to it without negotiation.

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. Aliena herself was one of the most important merchants in the county.

La vida de una mujer era una casa con las puertas cerradas: no podía formarse como aprendiz ni podía estudiar en la universidad; no podía ser sacerdote ni médico, ni tampoco disparar con un arco

man such as Lowthie, or even Bing, expected a woman to act like a well-behaved child: to listen respectfully when he was being ponderous, to laugh appreciatively at his wit, to obey when he was masterful, and to give him a kiss whenever he asked. Walter treated her as a grown-up. He did not flirt, or condescend, or show off, and he listened at least as much as he talked. The

We shouldn't be talking of politics. Women ought to leave such matters to their husbands.

Prior Godwyn came in to see the patients. He refused to wear the face mask, saying it was women's nonsense. He made the same diagnosis as before, overheated blood, and prescribed bleeding and a diet of sour apples and ram's tripe.

Bem no início de sua amizade, Dimka lhe perguntara: – O que você faz para... enfim, para evitar a gravidez? – Isso é problema da garota, não é? – retrucou Valentin com descaso. – Se o pior acontecer, fazer um aborto não é tão difícil assim. Ao conversar com outros amigos, Dimka descobriu que muitos rapazes soviéticos tinham a mesma atitude. Homens não engravidavam, então aquilo não era problema deles;

Un uomo che aveva una relazione galante era considerato vizioso, ma in fondo romantico; una donna che faceva altrettanto era una puttana.

We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.

As we saw, Gilligan's work suggested that men tend to reason in terms of autonomy, rights, agency, justice, and ranking; and women in terms of relationship, care, responsibility, communion, and nonranking (with individual men and women capable of any of those across the whole spectrum).

So perhaps we can learn to value the differences between the male and female value spheres. Those differences, even according to the radical feminists, appear to be here for good—but we can learn to value them with more equal emphasis. How to do so is one of the things we might want to talk about.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.