Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Could it be that women in the United States have become too independent – that they have followed the lead of women like Margaret Sanger by neglecting family life for career?.

A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

War they [women] understand least, and from it they instinctively recoil. There is danger in this situation. Women now have the vote, and they outnumber the men.... In spite of themselves we must protect the ladies!

I never war against females, and it is only the base and cowardly that do.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.