Quotes About Gender

I'm not completely sure yet whether I want to marry at all," I said. "To tell you the truth, I don't like the thought of being under the thumb of some man for the rest of my life. It seems to me that women are expected to surrender all freedom and individuality when they become wives.

With what? It's no coincidence that it was white male scientists

Rosella screams, a short, high-pitched yelp as the Pedestrian starts tearing at her clothes. It is what he must do, as the Pedestrian, and Rosella must squeal and weep and eventually succumb to the desire his rough hands awaken in her, because deep down every woman hides a dream of being ravished by strange men.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

All known cases of women in the ranks involved volunteers who, unlike regulars, often did not have to undergo physical examination upon enlistment. One Alabama Volunteer passed off a female companion as his frail younger brother until the ruse was discovered. Caroline Newcome took the name "Bill" and served as a private in the Missouri volunteers until pregnancy betrayed her. A similar case occurred in the Mississippi volunteers.

This biblical mandate to work—here with the emphasis on cultivating and tending—explodes a great misconception regarding gender roles. We have been taught that women are the main nurturers, while men are to be "strong and silent." But the Bible calls men to be cultivators, and that includes a significant emphasis on tending the hearts of those given into our charge.

We are also greatly influenced by consumption norms within the relevant group. A light eater eats much more in a group of heavy eaters. A heavy eater will show more restraint in a light-eating group. The group average thus exerts a significant influence. But there are gender differences as well. Women often eat less on dates; men tend to eat a lot more, apparently with the belief that women are impressed by a lot of manly eating. (Note to men: they aren't.) So

He was thinking it must be tough to be a woman. They were all needs and wants and wishes and the only real trade they had was going to bed.

It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.

some people around the Institute were skeptical of her ability to work in a space suit in Level 4. She was a "married female"—and therefore, they claimed, she might panic. They claimed that her hands looked nervous or clumsy, not good for work with Level 4 hot agents. People felt that she might cut herself or stick herself with a contaminated needle—or stick someone else. Her hands became a safety issue. But the real issue was that she was a woman.

Not testosterone per se but the patriarchal preference for subjecting males to violentization, and their physical advantage in achieving early successful violent performances, explains why men are much more likely than women to be seriously violent.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character—as the Bible itself often does.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Annabeth frowned. Percy's sword is a she? Jack laughed. Well, duh . Percy studied Riptide, though I could've told him from experience it was almost impossible to tell a sword's gender by looking at it. I don't know, he said. Are you sure -? Percy, said Alex. Respect the gender. Okay, fine, he said. It's just kinda strange that I never knew. On the other hand, Annabeth said, you didn't know the pen could write until last year. That's low, Wise Girl.

I turned to Alex. 'Hey, are you female today?' 'Hold on... There! Now I'm female.' My expression must have been priceless. Alex burst out laughing. 'I'm kidding. Yes, I'm female today. She and her.

Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned? Leo asked. But you're a girl. You're a girl, said the girl. Excuse me?

I'll admit that I was staring. Suddenly my whole perspective had flipped inside out, like when you look at an inkblot picture and see just the black part. Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed. That was Alex Fierro, except in pink and green. A second ago, he had been very obviously a boy to me. Now she was very obviously a girl.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

Most of the time, Alex identified as female, but today he was definitely male. Sometimes I slipped up and used the wrong pronouns for him/ her, so Alex liked to return the favor by teasing me mercilessly. Because friendship.

We don't know much about Otrera from the old stories. Those Ancient Greek dudes didn't care where Otrera came form or what made her tick. Why would that be? 1) She was a woman. 2) She was a scary woman. 3) She was a scary woman who killed Ancient Greek dudes.

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up? she wondered. I expect Jesus came out of the tomb, Juliet thought, and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?

Jessica was easier, her character already fixed at the age of eight. Loyal, resourceful, confident, annoying. Clever, too clever sometimes. Too clever for her own good , their father said but their mother said, That's impossible. Especially for a girl.