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Quotes About Gender

Sickening, the way the youngest de Vibrey girl, to humour the whim of her kinky old father, is actually riding side-saddle today. Twisted round like a blooming corkscrew. Hymen be blowed, think of what it's doing to her innards, poor wretch, think of the strain on her spine when she goes over the fences.
~ A.P.
Christopher Lasch concluait cette passe d'armes : « La femme moderne ne peut résister à la tentation de vouloir dominer son mari ; et si elle y parvient, elle ne peut s'empêcher de le haïr. »
~ Éric Zemmour
Crying is no use, you know. We never cry, even though we aren't men yet, like you
~ Ágota Kristóf
Un uomo dice: - Tu chiudi il becco! Le donne non sanno niente della guerra. La donna dice: - Non sanno niente? Coglione! Abbiamo tutto il lavoro, tutte le preoccupazioni: i bambini da sfamare, i feriti da curare. Voi, una volta finita la guerra siete tutti degli eroi. Morti: eroi. Sopravvissuti: eroi. Mutilati: eroi. E' per questo che avete inventato la guerra, voi uomini. E' la vostra guerra. L'avete voluta voi, fatela allora, eroi dei miei stivali!
~ Ágota Kristóf
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
~ Aaron Eckhart
The thing is, women try to look slim-hipped like men, and they can't. Not if they have any female hormones. The very thing that makes a woman so lovely is exactly what you have: a big, beautiful trochanteric subcutaneous adipose tissue deposit.
~ Aaron Elkins
She had never inadvertently hit on a straight woman, or misidentified a lesbian in her life. Of course she usually also only dated on Goodreads, where most people had social media identify their gender preferences. However,
~ Aaron Frale
Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand. Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
The alpha male must not be a wife beta.
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
Many fashion designers, moreover, are homosexual, Versace only the most conspicuous example, and these men create a boylike fashion norm which forces women into patterns of diet and exercise which constitute a new form of oppression. [Boys will be boys]
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
Tradition has it that four categories of person incur the anger of God: 'Men who dress themselves as women and women who dress themselves as men, those who sleep with animals and those who sleep with men.' Homosexuality (liw??) incurs the strongest condemnation. It is identified with zin? and it is advocated that the most horrible punishment should be applied to those who indulge in it.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
Male supremacy is fundamental in Islam. Nevertheless the Quran does not ignore the eternal feminine.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
Maybe slavery has been with us for centuries because of the inclination to maintain economic systems geared more toward commodifying human existence than developing its spiritual, creative, or scientific potentials. Such commodification instantly erases any recognition of humanity as a priceless value unto itself and reduces individuals as well as entire races, or a specific gender, to a bargain-priced 'other.
~ Aberjhani
There is a great new work before us, which is to replace with true knowledge the ignorance that has destroyed human minds. We will construct unity in a world [which] has been brutally torn apart by false divisions of race, religion, gender, nationality, and age. We will heal with unconditional love those souls whose hearts have been disfigured by hatred and loneliness.
~ Aberjhani
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
~ Abigail Adams
If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?
~ Abigail Adams
Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. . . . Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
~ Abigail Adams
I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
~ Abigail Adams
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
~ Abigail Adams
I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could… that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
~ Abigail Adams
The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving.
~ Abigail Adams
Laughing at the oppression of women is the best medicine for those who fear being laughed at.
~ Abigail Bray
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
~ Abraham Cahan
Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity.
~ Abraham Kuyper