Gender roles and the repression of women

Quote

Character

Chapter

“You can’t trust wolves no more nor women!”

Zoological Gardens Keeper

XI

“We must obey, and silence is part of obedience”

Van Helsing

XI

“Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness!”

Doctor Seward

XIII

“I suppose there is something in woman’s nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.”

Mina Harker

XVII

“With a sob he laid his head on my shoulder, and cried like a wearied child, whilst he shook with emotion”

Mina Harker

XVII

“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked.”

Mina Harker

XVII

“She has a man’s brain – a brain that a man should have were he much gifted – and a woman’s heart.”

Van Helsing

XVIII

“I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it.”

Mina Harker

XIX