Aeschylus Quotes

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

I believe women should be feminine.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

I think a man should definitely be helping in the home. There are so many places in our country where it's kind of thought to be a woman's place, and it shouldn't be.

Being born a girl in India, it matters a lot what family you are born into.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding?

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.

Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that's the way it was. But certainly it isn't that women weren't able to do it.

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.