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“I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.”

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Author:Sally Quinn

“[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.”

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Author:Cokie Roberts

“If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.”

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Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].”

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Author:Geena Davis

“The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.”

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Author:Michael Kimmel

“That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.”

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Author:Geena Davis

“When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.”

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Author:Barbara Crampton

“Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.”

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Author:Barbara Crampton

“Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.”

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Book:M. Butterfly

Source: M. Butterfly

“One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby, She looked at me, at a spot between my eyes, blinking like I had suddenly fallen crazy. She paused before answering as if to confide would legitimize my fears. She drew a deep breath, leaned against the chair. I touched her hand and I thought she might cry. Instead she put baby Davie in my arms Pattyn, she said, it's a woman's role. I decided if it was my role, I'd rather disappear.”

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Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.”

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Book:Burned

Source: Burned

“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.”

“The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.”

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Author:Gail Collins

“I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.”

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Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.”

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Author:Carolyn Merchant

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.”

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Book:Conversations with Maya Angelou

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”

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Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.”

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Author:Amy Dumas

“When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.”

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Author:Andrea Jung