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8d2e2b6
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"What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Eowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
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fear
gender-roles
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3206aa4
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All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
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gender-roles
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7d0511b
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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.
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gender-roles
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John Green |
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42483df
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl
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equality
feminism
inspirational
gender-roles
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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25924f2
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.
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feminism
inspirational
gender-roles
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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38de18d
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.
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loneliness
feminism
writing
gender-roles
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Jennifer Donnelly |
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4fa9938
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"A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised." She answered: "All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death." "What do you fear, lady?" he asked. "A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
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Éowyn
gender-roles
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e5b5e3f
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Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent, confused, rather tiresome, and with limited aspirations. Manic states, on the other hand, seem to be more the provenance of men: restless, fiery, aggressive, volatile, energetic, risk taking, grandiose and visionary, and impatient with the status quo. Anger or irritability in men, under such circumstances, is more tolerated and understandable; leaders or takers of voyages are permitted a wider latitude for being temperamental. Journalists and other writers, quite understandably, have tended to focus on women and depression, rather than women and mania. This is not surprising: depression is twice as common in women as men. But manic-depressive illness occurs equally often in women and men, and, being a relatively common condition, mania ends up affecting a large number of women. They, in turn, often are misdiagnosed, receive poor, if any, psychiatric treatment, and are at high risk for suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, and violence. But they, like men who have manic-depressive illness, also often contribute a great deal of energy, fire, enthusiasm, and imagination to the people and world around them.
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depression
manic-depressive-illness
gender-roles
mania
misdiagnosis
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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a762a0e
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If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.
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feminism
gender-roles
gender-stereotypes
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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be0c072
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"Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep."
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rape
feminism
women-s-rights
women
assault
assaults
catcalling
disrespect
men-s-behavior
personal-experiences
personal-space
predatory-behavior
problems-in-the-world
problems-of-today
problems-with-men
problems-with-society
saying-no
street-harassment
verbal-abuse
women-s-experiences
women-s-issues
personal-experience
predators
personal-autonomy
sexual-assault
misogynist
harassment
sexual-violence
victims
behavior
misogyny
gender-roles
communication
culture
not-listening
rapists
rape-culture
men-and-women
women-and-men
gender
sexuality
sexual-abuse
survivors
sexism
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Jon Krakauer |
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bda31e0
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"Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby."
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women
manipulation
gender-roles
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Margaret Atwood |
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659f422
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Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
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war
men
history
women
religion
gender-roles
purpose
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Philippa Gregory |
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d93f3ad
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It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.
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feminism
relationships
feminism-gender
gender-roles
gender
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Lorrie Moore |
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8fa2c26
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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she'd fall on her face. She said, If we don't let her have one like all the other girls she'll feel singled out. It'll become an issue. She'll long for one and she'll long to turn into one. Repression breeds sublimation. You know that. He said, It's not just the pointy plastic tits, it's the wardrobes. The wardrobes and that stupid male doll, what's his name, the one with the underwear glued on. She said, Better to get it over with when she's young. He said, All right but don't let me see it. She came whizzing down the stairs, thrown like a dart. She was stark naked. Her hair had been chopped off, her head was turned back to front, she was missing some toes and she'd been tattooed all over her body with purple ink, in a scrollwork design. She hit the potted azalea, trembled there for a moment like a botched angel, and fell. He said, I guess we're safe.
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women
beauty
humor
role-models
feminine
girls
gender-roles
femininity
gender-stereotypes
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Margaret Atwood |
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fd77ea2
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Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.
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feminism
misogyny
gender-roles
gender
sexism
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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ec2d50f
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What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have--I've never thought it made much sense to leave such a crucial thing--the ability to nourish oneself --in the hands of others.
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feminism
gender-roles
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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7247707
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"Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?"
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gender-roles
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Kate Atkinson |
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22738cd
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Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our happiness.
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gender-roles
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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98756c2
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I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell--just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later--I wish I'd told him.
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romance
love
if-only
declaration-of-love
henry-and-cato
iris-murdoch
romantic-love
gender-roles
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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f2eb9b1
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It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.
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raunch-culture
misogyny
gender-equality
gender-roles
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Ariel Levy |
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31e403f
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The summer dresses are unpacked and hanging in the closet, two of them, pure cotton, which is better than synthetics like the cheaper ones, though even so, when it's muggy, in July and August, you sweat inside them. No worry about sunburn though, said Aunt Lydia. The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder those things used to happen. [...] And not good for the complexion, not at all, wrinkle you up like a dried apple. But we weren't supposed to care about our complexions any more, she'd forgotten that.
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the-handmaid-s-tale
narcissism
gender-roles
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Margaret Atwood |
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bb35a16
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The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.
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gender-roles
media
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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4707d46
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Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly diSerent world. The person more qualired to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
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gender-roles
wage-gap
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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07e70ee
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Intelligent and cultivated people of either sex will never limit themselves to communing with their own households. Men and women equally, when they have the range of interests that real cultivation gives, need the stimulus of different points of view, the refreshment of new ideas as well as of new faces. The long hypocrisy which Puritan England handed on to America concerning the danger of frank and free social relations between men and women has done more than anything else to retard real civilisation in America.
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intelligence
gender-roles
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Edith Wharton |