#gender

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) 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. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death. ↗

— Gavin de Becker

#fear #feminism #gender #men #rape

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#beauty

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. ↗

— Norah Vincent

#gender-stereotypes #loss #maleness #masculinity #tenderness

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre ↗

— Pedro Almodóvar

#film #lgbt #lgbtqia #spanish #transgender

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#equality #gender #man #men-world #power

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#female #feminism #feminist #gender #gender-equality

C'est par le travail que la femme a conquis sa dignité d'être humain; mais ce fut une conquête singulièrement dure et lente. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#gender-equality #labour #equality

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: “Can I please get some peace and quiet, please? ↗

— Alan Eisenstock

#manspeak #equality

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#gender-equality #women #equality