Speech Practices Associated With Gender
Not all members of a particular sex may follow the specific gender roles that are prescribed by society. The patterns in gender and communication that follow are only the norms for each gender, and not every member of the corresponding sex may fit into those patterns.
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Famous quotes containing the words speech, practices and/or gender:
“Go three days without reading and your speech will become tasteless.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)