Gender Roles in Society Quotes

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.

Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.

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, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

I do tons of feminine things.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

I'm thinking that a boy would just be easier to take care of, you know? You don't have to worry about the weaves and the lipsticks and that kinda stuff.