In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew Katherine resists traditional gender roles throughout the play and she eventually gives into the pressures that are put on her by male characters and society. What are some some quotes that prove this point?

To suit audiences of the day and to live up to the promise of its title--that the "shrew" be "tamed," Katherine (Kate) does eventually give into social pressures and conforms to a social hierarchy in which the husband is considered the king of his household. She agrees that the wife is to be obedient and subservient to her husband's will, whatever his will may be. Some quotes that show that Kate has capitulated come towards the end of the play. For instance, in Act IV, scene 5, Kate begins by contradicting Petruchio when he says the moon is shining brightly. She first says, no, it's the sun that shines, but then catches herself and states that she will agree with her husband:

"And be it the moon or the sun or whatever you please:
An if you please to call it a rush-candle
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me."

Petruchio continues, testing her:

"I say it is the moon."

Kate agrees it's the moon, and then Petruchio changes his mind and says to her:

"You lie: it is the blessed sun."

Again she agrees:

"Then God be blessed; it is the blessed sun:
But sun it is not, when you say it is not."

Petruchio puts Kate through the same routine a second time. First, he asks Kate whether or not in Vincentio she has ever seen 

"a fresher gentlewoman?
Such war of red and white within her cheeks!
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty 
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?"

Kate again agrees, calling Vincentio:

"Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet"

But when Petruchio insists that Vincentio is

"old, wrinkled, faded, withered,
And not a maiden ..."

Kate agrees, saying: "Pardon ... my mistaking eyes."
In Act V, scene 2, at the end of the play, Kate gives a long speech in which she says to the widow and Bianca:

"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,

Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee ...
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks, and true obedience...
And when she [a wife] is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?"


She tells the women to

"place your hands below your husbands foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready; may it do him ease."

In other words, Kate makes a speech in favor of wifely obedience and says she is ready to serve, to place herself in a position subservient to her husband, to put her hand underneath his foot.