Quotes About Gender

Margaret thought it was an exaggeration, but it was still odd that women were required to array themselves primarily as erotic objects, even on the most unsuitable occasions, even when they had passed forty, even when the last thing that men like Henry seemed to think of was eroticism, anyway where his wife was concerned.

Pyne: I guess your long hair makes you a girl. Zappa: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

Men are always jealous of women who are superior to themselves.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Women wear the breeches… in a word, the world turned upside downward.

A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

Your task is to let go of the rigidity that takes hold of you as you overidentify with the expected gender role. Power lies in exploring that middle range between the masculine and the feminine, in playing against people's expectations.

Daily Law: Return to the harder or softer sides of your character that you have lost or repressed. The Laws of Human Nature, 12: Reconnect to the Masculine or Feminine within You—The Law of Gender Rigidity

Las mujeres [narcisistas] son las que más fascinan a los hombres.

Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.

So are you telling me… he composed his thoughts. Are you telling me that if you told the last story again, and changed the young woman to a young man, then somewhere in history that same young woman would suddenly grow a beard? Tallis laughed at the image. I don't know, she said. I suppose so.

Females are most often bitten on breasts and legs during sexual attacks

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret." "Ila was giving me advice on being a woman," Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see. "Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.

Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.

Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.

It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.