Quotes About Gender

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

It wouldn't be very ladylike to punch a guy in the balls, but it isn't very manlike to harass a woman because she has different parts and a sweet face.

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

When a female cop pull you over for speeding, to get out of the ticket, talk nice to her, try to flirt or start crying, i bet she will save the ticket for you.

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.

August 26, 1557, noted that Mrs. Dawson, widow of one Bryckette, a tooth-drawer, as per orders, "shall paye no quartryge to the hawse nor hange oute any signe or cloth with teethe as she heretofore hath done." Her offense: after the death of her husband, she remarried, yet carried on his trade, becoming the first woman dentist known to history.

And that was the day she invented it, this particular glazed expression of hers. She had created it to please her father, but it had served her well in her life. When she wore it, most men thought she was listening to them, and most women knew that the conversation was over.

She had refined her brain as much as possible to not give a fuck about what her father thought, and yet, every once in a while, she still saw herself through his eyes, heard his voice in her head, although it was not him, specifically, but a collective male vision, what she imagined men to be. And then she caught herself assessing her physical form, and it was not with love, no joy at its bounty, but rather through a skewed, screwed-up lens.

Men never really wanted your help anyway, she thought. They wanted you to do things for them, but it would never be thought of as help so much as required service

Gender identity belongs to the person who lives it, but one cannot deny that observers will make assumptions about us based on their understanding or comprehension of gender signals.

Imagine... You feel great about yourself, but when you look down, your body is the opposite sex from who you know yourself to be. Imagine what it would feel like to live with that descrepancy.

Instead of tall and angular shapes regarded as masculine and aggressive, she now turned to soft, rounded forms identified as female or nurturing.

It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois

Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti who taught him that women are, first and foremost, teachers then mistresses - and above all that when you come right down to it, the female is a very different and, more o the point, a much more fascinating creature than the male.

I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl (AS: I don't share that part of her feelings fully). I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.

In de oorlog had ik daar wankel op de hoge hakken gelopen, met een jurk aan en een hoofddoek om. Om mijn broer te bewijzen dat ook ik geschikt was om illegaal werk te doen. Maar voor de garage kwam ik een jongen tegen die ik in jaren niet gezien had en die zei: 'Dag Jan!' Ik ging terug, trok de kleren van mijn zuster uit en bemoeide me verder niet meer met de oorlog.

If our mothers are rolling over every time we do something on their list of things a lady shouldn't do, they've been flopping like flounder since they were buried.

Slapping a man across the face with a fish hasn't been sexy since the fifties.

Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female.

Men swung wildly at each other, mostly missing their intended target and hitting the women, who had handfuls of each other's hair and were bent over turning in a circle like performing some insane dance. It was a bar fight without the bar.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical.

I'm pretty sure the perfect man has already been built. She's called 'woman

men think the uterus is a tracking device.)