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Quotes About Gender

But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.
~ Lawrence Durrell
There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.
~ Lawrence Durrell
These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.
~ William Shakespeare
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
~ Alice Walker
It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.
~ Fiona Apple
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
~ Desmond Morris
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.
~ Grantly Dick-Read
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance
~ Clifford Geertz
It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
~ M. Carey Thomas
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.
~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone's genitalia to themselves.
~ Sabrina Zbasnik
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
~ William Gibson
In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.
~ Cassandra Clare
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.
~ Nelly Kaplan
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
~ James Connolly
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
~ B.R. Ambedkar
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~ Dorothy Fields
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
~ Anita Sarkeesian