Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Societal Expectations Quotes
MasculinitySocietal ExpectationsStrengthVulnerability Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Emotional ComplexityGender DynamicsHuman NatureRelationshipsSocietal Expectations It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Equality and JusticeGender EqualityLimitations and CapabilitiesSocietal Expectations There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
Self-IdentitySocietal ExpectationsVirtue If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
IdentityInsecuritySelf-PerceptionSocietal ExpectationsVulnerability I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, 'She's got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of a 13-year-old girl.' I never felt pretty or light or young. I always felt very foreign, different, and heavy. I felt like I was a circus freak. It's so loaded for a young girl to hear.
Gender DynamicsGender RolesHistorical PerspectivesIntelligenceSocietal Expectations In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Gender RolesIdentityPower DynamicsSelf-DiscoverySocietal Expectations For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
Family DynamicsGender RolesSacrificeSocietal ExpectationsWomen's Roles The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Gender ChallengesPerseveranceSocietal ExpectationsSuccess Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
