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We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
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The quote says that everyday actions, movement, and speech can reinforce the impression that someone is a man or a woman. It presents gender as something people express through repeated ways of behaving, rather than something shown by one isolated action.
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