It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.
Lorrie MooreTags: gender relationships feminism dating gender-roles feminism-gender
When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.
M.E. ThomasTags: gender women society religion feminism misogyny sociopathy psychopathy
Now say, have women worth, or have they none?
Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone?
Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long,
But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong.
Let such as say our sex is void of reason
Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was treason."
(In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth)
Tags: empowerment equality gender women stereotypes clichés mysogyny elizabeth-i
What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.
Judith ButlerTags: sexuality gender legislation
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
Paul FussellTags: gender war aggression gender-stereotypes manhood
It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.
Louise CareyTags: gender women women-issues
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Pearl S. BuckTags: empowerment equality gender men women world women-s-liberation women-s-rights
Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.
Sten NadolnyTags: gender men women empathy prejudice understanding clichés mysogyny
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."
(Letter, 17 June 1837)
Tags: gender men women inequality violence imperfections mysogyny faults submission
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: gender cooking housekeeping storytelling
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