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Quotes About Gender

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.
~ Donald Symons
As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
Pope Joan was an excellent read.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.
~ Dora Musielak
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
~ Doris Day
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
~ Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
~ Doris Lessing
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
~ Doris Lessing
1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.8 Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less.
~ Dorothy A. Brown
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
~ Dorothy Day
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~ Dorothy Fields
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other forms of fun. . . / With this the gist and sum of it, / What earthly good can come of it?
~ Dorothy Parker
charts in vivid detail precisely how the shape of her life and the choices she makes are defined by her reduction to a sexual object, an object to be raped, bred, or abused."2
~ Dorothy Roberts
It's difficult to get attached to preferences like lesbian or straight when you don't know the gender of the person you are flirting with.
~ Dossie Easton
One of the things we like about what transgender and nonbinary people bring into our play parties is the constant experience of posing exceptions to all those pesky rules about gender and presenting interesting examples of how we all can be free to be exactly who we want to be. Everyone of every gender and every orientation has a right to feel safe and free to enjoy sex.
~ Dossie Easton
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
~ Doug Coupland
While men are always fully responsible for what they do with the thoughts in their head, women must take responsibility for the role they play in providing any unnecessary erotic stimuli by their inappropriate dress or behavior. I
~ Doug Rosenau
To be perfectly honest, if I had my way women wouldn't even be allowed inside grounds, and I certainly believe that if a ground is sold out and a male of the species is locked outside, someone should go in, grab the nearest female and throw her out so that the bloke can have her seat.
~ Dougie Brimson
Women's football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn't and they don't. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.
~ Dougie Brimson
I treated women as human beings, which is of course fatal.
~ Douglas Botting