Sex Roles Quotes

#1. I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Marilyn Monroe

#2. Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

Bell Hooks

#3. Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#4. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#8. I would never do a role where I'm naked in bed with a chick having sex.

Terry Crews

#9. In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.

Emile Zola

#10. Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Brian Molko

#11. Love begins when two souls meet together. A soul attracted by another soul. They feel like bind by each other. It's a powerful addiction. It's truly said, first love is last love. But it does not said anywhere to stop love if you betrayed by your lover.

Kusum Manjeshri

#12. I don't think you're beautiful I think you're beyond it

Lil' Wayne

#13. To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#14. A man's library opens up his character to the world.

Matthew Pearl

#15. In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Margaret Halsey

#16. Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is unchangeable, "natural" in the sense of good, or something that should be forced on individual women or men who don't want it.

Steven Pinker

#17. Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

Leanne Payne

#19. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

Marguerite Duras

#21. You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads.

Terry Pratchett

#22. But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

Alexander McCall Smith

#23. People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

Michael Azerrad

#24. The sexual stage invites lovers to become whoever they want, enticed with endless possibilities of characters, roles, situations and scenarios to play-act. It is a chance for us to trade in our self-imposed labels and everyday identity for something a little more adventurous.

Miya Yamanouchi

#25. If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#26. Girls fantasize about being tied up and bent over a broad pair of knees. Girls dream of being dominated and worshipped. Girls adore dressing up, role play, changing roles. Yes, that's right, perfidious submissives are itchy to switch to the Domme and grab the whip handle.

Chloe Thurlow

#27. Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

Robert Creeley

#28. Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

Marilyn Monroe

#29. I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#30. One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

Stephen Lewis

#31. The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

Saad Hariri

#32. Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#33. I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

Susanne Bier