Quotes About Gender

I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.

I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had lots of costume jewelry and a big chest of purses and things, and she would let me play with all of it - even her makeup and perfume. She just didn't care.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

Every dish is very connected to my own experiences. Perhaps I go deeper in the description and feeling in the dish than a male chef would. But it's difficult to say.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Creo que las mujeres sostienen al mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarajuste mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata

When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.

In fact Cleopatra was indebted to Fulvia for teaching Antony to obey a wife's authority, for by the time he met her he had already been quite broken in and schooled to accept the way of women.

If we compare Sappho's poems with Anakreon's or the Sibyl's oracles with the prophet Bakis, then it is clear that the art of poetry or of prophecy is not one art practiced by men and another when practiced by women. It is the same. Can anyone protest this conclusion?

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Jangan panggil aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki... Namun bukan berarti aku tak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai...

Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)