Quotes About Gender

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

He came of a generation to which any girl, before she is married, is a kind of unexploded bomb.

You'd think BioMax could have improved on the defective male brain. . . .

They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

Now I wonder, Nicki said. Didn't we all? What it would be like to be one of them, to have power, be seen, be heard, be dude rather than sluts, be jocks or geeks, or bros or nice guys, or boys will be boys, or whatever we wanted instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception, to be in control, to seize control, simply because we happen to have a dick.

Dex's mother knew she should be afraid for her daughter. This, she'd been told, was the tragedy of being a girl. To live in fear–it was the fate of any parent, maybe, but the special provenance of a mother to a daughter, one woman raising another, knowing too well what could happen. This was what lurked inside the luckiest delivery rooms, the ones whose balloons screamed It's a girl!: pink cigars and flowered onesies and fear.

What it would be to be like one of them. To have power, be seen, be heard, be dudes rather than sluts, be jocks and geeks or bros or nice guys or boys-will-be-boys instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception. To be in control, to seize control, simply because we happened to have a dick.

Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise.

Girls walk into a room. The boys sit up. Women in their late forties walk into a room. Men in their fifties sit up, straighten their backs, pull down the fronts of their hoodies. It made me want to cry. I felt I was going right back into the life I'd missed.

In fact, Professor Showalter's proposals provide a sterling illustration of the way in which feminism has provided a kind of blueprint for special interests that wish to appropriate the curriculum in order to achieve political goals.

Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason) and

Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason)

Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.

Historiquement, le discours de l'absence est tenu par la Femme : la Femme est sédentaire, l'Homme est chasseur, voyageur; la Femme est fidèle (elle attend), l'homme est coureur (il navigue, il drague). C'est la Femme qui donne forme à l'absence, en élabore la fiction, car elle en a le temps ; (…)

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. As

For those who like to quote Aristotle's wisdom when appealing to his "Prime Mover" argument for the existence of God, let us remember that he also claimed that women had a different number of teeth than men, presumably without bothering to check.) Everything

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

Never hit a woman unless she's trying to kill you.

There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank.

This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

Not woman's work?

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

Which is why turning myself into a sex object now would be taking a big step backwards for me and all women in the department.