Quotes About Male And Female Roles

#1. Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder.

Bell Hooks

#2. Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

Henry Makow

#3. Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that [ "the all-female Ghostbusters" ], because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.

Paul Feig

#4. I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals ...

Dan Savage

#5. Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

Warren Farrell

#7. My desire to work - my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible - is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

Marie Calloway

#9. You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms ... But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

Chris Raschka

#10. You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Anna Faris

#11. Danat was asking if we had any other books," Maati said.
"You have all of them," the boy said, awe I'm his voice.
Maati chuckled, and then felt the mirth and simple pleasure fade.
"Yes," he said. "Yes, we have all of them.

Daniel Abraham

#12. Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Lynn Coady

#13. I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.

Brendan Halpin

#14. A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles.

Abbie Cornish

#15. I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Darby Stanchfield

#16. I do not know why there are more people in the world that dare to be different than there are people who dare to make a difference.

Tonny K. Brown

#17. Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

Patrick Ness

#18. In the service of statist sameness, the male-vs.-female biological imperatives are rapidly, if reflexively, being dissolved. Dissolving 'The Constitution of Man' is dangerous to civilization, for a subservient, effete civilization will not survive the onslaught of Islam.

Ilana Mercer

#19. The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#20. keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowningly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting

Sarah Dosher

#21. Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.

Callan McAuliffe

#22. The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

Frans De Waal

#23. Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.

Wm. Paul Young

#24. Too many things were going on in her head at once, and it was causing her eyes to leak.

Gail Carriger

#25. Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.

Geena Davis

#26. I was born tomorrow
today I live
yesterday killed me

Parviz Owsia

#27. Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Eloisa James

#28. Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Fulton J. Sheen

#29. In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

Marcia Gay Harden