gender roles quotes

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.