Gender Roles quotes

Welcome to our collection of Gender Roles quotes! This category explores the various aspects and societal expectations surrounding gender roles. Throughout history, gender roles have played a significant role in defining the behaviors, responsibilities, and expectations associated with masculinity and femininity.

These quotes delve into the complexities and challenges of traditional gender roles and the evolving nature of gender norms. From thought-provoking perspectives to enlightening insights, our collection aims to inspire contemplation and promote dialogue about the societal constructs and expectations placed on individuals based on their gender.

Whether you're seeking quotes that challenge gender stereotypes, highlight the importance of gender equality, or shed light on the experiences of individuals as they navigate traditional roles, you will find a diverse range of voices and perspectives within this category. We hope these quotes provoke discussion, encourage reflection, and contribute to a more inclusive understanding of gender roles in our society.

Explore our curated selection of Gender Roles quotes and discover the thoughts and wisdom shared by individuals from all walks of life. Let these quotes inspire you to question and challenge the predefined notions surrounding gender roles, as we strive for a world where everyone can freely express their true selves, unencumbered by societal expectations.

Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
You are a woman so dress like a woman. Be proud. Be sexy
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson
Novelist
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
Wives should be kissed - not heard.
Lindy West
Lindy West
American writer, comedian and activist
The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women.
Eli Roth
Eli Roth
American film director, producer, and actor
I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson
English Writer
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
Amy Grant
Amy Grant
American Musician
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley
American journalist, writer, and activist who supported the Chinese Communist Revolution
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
Adora Svitak
Adora Svitak
American Author
I think women should be more independent. In society, we're portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming - a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
American President
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.
And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.