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Quotes About Gender

Juga jangan jadi kriminil dalam percintaan-yang menaklukan wanita ddengan gemerincing ringgit,kilau harta dan pangkat.Lelaki belakangan ini adalah juga kriminil,sedang perempuan yang tertaklukan hanya pelacur.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Sering kulihat wanita dibebani barang bawaan cukup berat, menggendong, menyunggi, masih mendukung bocah, dan suaminya enak-enak jalan dengan berjual tampang hanya membawa tombak. Ait, terlalu. Pernah kutegur seorang diantara mereka, dan suaminya memang mau membantu. Tetapi pada kesempatan lain tetap juga membiarkan istrinya menjadi kuda beban. Kau tidak boleh begitu, Putih.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Semua lelaki memang kucing berlagak kelinci. Sebagai kelinci dimakannya semua daun, sebagai kucing dimakannya semua daging.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Wanita lebih suka mengabdi pada kekinian dan gentar pada ketuaan; mereka dicengkam oleh impian tentang kemudaan yang rapuh itu dan hendak bergayutan abadi pada kemudaan impian itu. Umur sungguh aniaya bagi wanita.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Kebawelan banyak kali dianggap wanita sebagai ukuran kelihaian.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Aku boleh seorang pelacur! Aku boleh seorang sampah masyarakat! Aku seorang bintang film gagal! Tapi beradat! Tidak. Aku juga punya tanah air. Aku Larasati, bintang ara. Sedang sebutan Miss pun aku tak pernah pakai. Ara! Cukup Ara. Mengapa mesti dengan Miss? Sebutan itu akan membuat aku berkulit putih. Apakah sebutan itu tantangan kaum pria, kalau aku milik siapa saja?
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Perempuan itu harta, musti turut lelaki punya mau - Siti F. Yang Ditemui Di Pulau Buru
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Ah, itu serdadu manja kalau menang perang sekali saja! Kemenanganku lebih dari padanya. Aku pernah menguasai dia hanya karena aku tidak seperti perempuan-perempuan lain.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Wanita budak paling baik hanya untuk pria budak.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Cantik menarik sungguh lebih baik daripada kusut, Ann. Ingat-ingat itu. Dan setiap yang buruk tak pernah menarik. Perempuan yang tak dapat merawat kecantikan sendiri, kalau aku lelaki, akan kukatakan pada teman-temanku, jangan kawini perempuan semacam itu, dia tidak bisa apa-apa, merawat kulitnya sendiri pun tak kuasa.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
A thousand men may live together in harmony, whereas two women are unable to do so though they be sisters.
~ Proverb
Any man with two wives becomes a porter
~ Proverb
He who listens to the advice of a woman is a fool.
~ Proverb
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs. #IWD2020
~ Proverb
The woman without a husband doesn't have a friend.
~ Proverb
To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts or the parliaments to her, for the 'emancipated' woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of the kitchen and wash-house; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Why has woman's work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think "of those kitchen arrangements," which they have put on the shoulders of that drudge—woman.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous. Nobody had to teach us this lesson—it was just something we knew from the earliest days on the playground.
~ Quan Barry
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
~ Queen Latifah
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
~ Queen Victoria
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.
~ Quentin Crisp
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.
~ Quentin Crisp