Quotes About Gender

Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.

Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?

women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.

In this instance, however, the answer was quite straightforward: "Men want women beautiful, romantic... birds of paradise instead of hurrying brown hens," said Bazaar in October 1945. As families were reestablished, there was a move toward a celebratory fashion of fecundity, with closer-fitting waists and rounder hips.

Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me.

the rapid increase of wealth permitted the wives of prosperous men to withdraw from productive activity.

Interestingly, single women were prominent amongst rentiers, investors and money lenders, suggesting that wealthier women had long found trade an unappetizing option. 11

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

It is the interactive presence of these two features of deprivation – being low class and being female – that can massively impoverish women from the less privileged classes.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

This world demands nothing short of perfection from women who aim high, and our need to see perfection in women has, until recently, far outweighed our need for their participation.

To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman's body is the woman. OStay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

I, for one, hope for the day when women will know no restrictions because of sex but will be individuals free to live their lives as men are free—irrespective of the continent or country where they happen to live.

The wall between the men's and women's rooms was built like a fortress, and solid bars covered the windows—they'd been put there by the proprietors to protect the girls' honour. Instead they'd served as a death sentence. Isn't that always the way, Mrs. Fisher had thought, man's fears causing him to do things that lead to far greater sins.

Tu pleures comme une femme ce que tu n'as pas su défendre comme un homme.

Si je juge infantile l'idée d'un couple ouvert à tous les courants d'air, je n'ai pas beaucoup d'estime non plus pour les couples qui sentent le refermé ; et je n'ai que mépris pour le couple à l'ancienne, fondé sur la soumission de la femme à l'homme, ou sur la castration de l'homme par la femme, ou les deux à la fois.

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking about

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.