"Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways."

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Source : "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

Julie Bindel

#Real Quotes #Play Quotes #Squares Quotes

“One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.”
“To understand and be understood is to be free.”
“A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.”
“He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.”
“Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.”

Source : "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.
“I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.”
“Affectations can be dangerous.”
“When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.”

Source : "Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes" by Annie Murphy Paul, www.psychologytoday.com. May 1, 1998.

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