Quotes About Gender Norms

#1. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

DeObia Oparei

#2. Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

Jane Fonda

#3. In this nominally freer and more equal world, most women end up doing more work, for less reward, and feeling pressured to conform more closely to gender norms.

Laurie Penny

#4. It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

Judith Butler

#5. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#6. You know you're mine, don't you?" he muttered. "You have to be. You just have to be.

Thea Harrison

#7. More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Dean Spade

#8. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#9. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

Harry Shum Jr.

#11. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.

Bryant McGill

#12. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

Bryant McGill

#13. Wishing you all a very happy Mahahivrati.
God bless you all with lots and lots of happiness,
your wishes will be accomplished.
Om Namah Shivaya

R.D.Sharma

#14. Happiness is the worst threat to my business. Dreams are what it's all about. Frustrations. Fantasies that never come true.

Anne Fortier

#15. [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#17. Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

Pierre Omidyar

#18. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

Christine De Pizan

#19. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Christine De Pizan

#20. Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.

Miya Yamanouchi

#21. Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#22. The idea that in prehistoric times a man would spend his life hunting only for the benefit of his own wife and children, who were dependent solely upon his hunting prowess for survival, is simply a projection of 1950s marital norms onto the past.

Stephanie Coontz

#23. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf

#24. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte