Tamora Pierce Quotes

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.

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

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

No one knows what women want!

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

I feel like all guys are the same.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender - instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.

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.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Women all live a double standard.