“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made.”
I believe this quote deals with gender roles and the idea that were are confined to certain things. Gender roles are often seen as what a person has to be in order to be considered a part of their gender. What the author seems to be saying in the first part of the quote is that women were too focused on being a women that it prevented them from being able to see that they can be something else. The same applies for the second sentence in the quote. The men were probably raised to be a certain way as the women. Their fear or lack of knowledge could be what stopped the people at that time from going out into the world and trying to be something other than what they had been raised to be.
~Carlos L
What do you mean why you say that women were to focused on on being women and men as being men? Some would define a women to be a household figure raising kids while others would say they’re are responsible for a man’s pleasure. As for men one would argue they need go be gentle and compassionate to their families instead of strong and possessive.