Mildred S. Dresselhaus Quotes

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

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.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

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

Men always like what the ladies like.

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

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

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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