Traditional Gender Norms Quotes

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

Women are not trained to be housekeepers, nor to be wives, nor to be mothers ...

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

I've always been very girly.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

I've never really been a girly-girl.