Quotes About Gender

Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

The fact that Ishtar's sexual encounters usually mingle eroticism with violence was pointed out by Harris (1990: 264). However, it is not because Ishtar shatters the boundaries of her sex by proposing marriage (a masculine act) that Gilgamesh is frightened. -Women of Babylon: Gender and representation in Mesopotamia

Men and women are totally different. Women check men out, too ... but we do it with style.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

Hanya ada sedikit kejantanan di sini: karena itu wanita-wanita mereka membuat diri mereka jantan. Karena hanya lelaki yang cukup jantan akan -- membangkitkan kewanitaan dalam diri wanita.

In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The judge took into account "the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…" As if a man couldn't be as deeply affected by the lack of a child, too.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.

I think my mother secretly hoped that I'd turn into one of those girlie girls. It wasn't her fault that I firmly resisted any attempts to mould me into an ideal daughter. You can take a girl to ballet lessons as much as you like, but you can't necessarily make her into a ballerina.

Strah muškarce parališe, a žene pokre?e.

Muškarci se oporave od rastanka mnogo brže nego žene. Žena umire prilikom svakog rastanka. Muškarac se nakon svakog rastanka preporodi.

Women didn't have the luxury men did—men could take lovers as much as they liked. But women always bore the consequences, either in the form of a baby or a ruined reputation, or both. Even if none of that mattered, Ada knew herself well enough to understand that she couldn't take a man to her bed just for physical pleasure.

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Kobiety tak rzadko maj? sposobno?? wyst?powa? w charakterze ludzi, ?e wymagamy od nich, by w kobieco?ci ich zawiera?o si? ca?e ich cz?owiecze?stwo. I sami nie zdajemy sobie sprawy, jak w ten sposób w?a?nie poni?amy kobiet?.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

By nature, men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

For women, men creates war even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

I could be a housewife… I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.