1) "Gender is so much the routine ground of everyday activities that questioning its taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions is like thinking about whether the sun will come up."  40.
 
 
 
 

2) "the work adults do, as mothers and fathers and as low-level workers and high-level bosses, shapes womens' and men's life experiences, and these experiences produce different feelings, consciousness, relationships, skills-- ways of being that we call masculine and feminine."  41
 
 

3) As a social institution, gender is one of the major ways that human beings organize their lives."  41
 
 
 
 

4) "it is important to distinguish human action from animal behavior."  41.  (Ie.  Defecation is natural -- so why do we use toilets?)
 
 
 
 
 
 

5) "Whatever genes, hormones, and biological evolution contribute to human social institutions is materially as well as qualitatively transformed by social practices." 42
 
 
 
 
 
 

6) "Some societies have three genders."   42
 "Transvestites and transsexuals do no challenge the social construction of gender." 44

7) "Schools, parents, peers, and the mass media guide young people into gendered work and family roles."   46
 
 
 
 

8) "Once gender is ascribed, the social order constructs and hold individuals to strongly gendered norms and expectations."  48
 
 
 
 

9) "Gender is a major building block in the social structures built one these unequal statuses."  51
 
 
 
 
 

10) Because gender is a process, there is room not only for modification and variation by individuals and small groups but also for institutionalized change."  51
 
 
 
 

11) The paradox of human nature is that it is always a manifestation of cultural meanings, social relationships, and power politics; ‘not biology, but culture, becomes destiny.'"   53