Quotes About Gender

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

We live in a very gynophobic society

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.