God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu,...

A wedding is such a girl thing.

"My father said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests."

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as...

Mother and wife are saints, if they are not together

When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in...

Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer 'only if you're going to put out this time,' I told her...

Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient - little - wife material in her heavenly body. Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect? Fermin came closer,...

Maybe your aunt is funny in quiet moments with her friends because like many women her age, she was taught to not draw attention to herself. And maybe she also noticed how men of her generation...

I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please these men. There are far fewer guides for men about...

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame?

"I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the...

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.

Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own...

This is something that has been puzzling me for years. Women will stand there watching their items being rung up, and then when the till lady says, 'That's £4.20, love,' or whatever, they suddenly...

I'm just tired and I can't sleep yet. A woman's work is never done, isn't that what the fools say?

My mother slapped her forehead and rolled her eyes. Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, what are you thinking of? This is no kind of work for a nice young lady.

In all social classes except the most privileged, abnegation and hard work are considered the supreme female virtues; a spirit of sacrifice is a question of honor: the more one suffers for family, the...

I think all men get a macho rise out of the idea of creating a baby on some level, but that doesn't mean they're happy when the big belly and dirty diapers come around.

TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy.

Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely give up the things you love for me, so I will have proof that...

Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.