Quotes About Gender

and it is interesting to see today that mothers and fathers are returning to the old way of only visiting each other and not wanting to live together. This is the pattern of freedom until man no longer wishes to dominate women and children or always have to prove his control.

Dear God, Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me. Mr —— say, Cause she my wife. Plus, she stubborn. All women good for – he don't finish. He just tuck his chin over the paper like he do. Remind me of Pa.

Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

His eyes be sad and thoughtful. His face begin to look like a woman face.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

Do his business, she say. Do his business. Why, Miss Celie. You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you.

If every man in this courtroom had had his penis removed, what then? Would they understand better that that condition is similar to that of all the women in this room? That, even as we sit here, the women are suffering from the unnatural constrictions of flesh their bodies have been whittled and refashioned into?

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don't even look at women when women are speaking.

Although I'm good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than for mothers.

I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her finger. The

Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Madam, I pray you, be governed by me, or some other wise person. With respect, you are a woman and in need of masculine guidance.

Under pressure, men drink alcohol and invade other countries; women eat chocolate and go shopping.

Femeile nu se descurc? bine în spaÅ£iu, pentru c? în evoluÅ£ia lor n-au vînat altceva decît b?rbaÅ£i.

Studies show that women laugh at men they're attracted to, and men are attracted to women who laugh at them.

B?rbaÅ£ii ÅŸi femeile sînt diferiÅ£i. Nu sînt mai buni sau mai r?i — ci diferiÅ£i. Singurul lucru pe care îl au în comun este faptul c? aparÅ£in aceleiaÅŸi specii. Ei tr?iesc în lumi diferite, cu valori diferite ÅŸi conform unor reguli diferite. Toat? lumea ÅŸtie asta, dar foarte puÅ£ini oameni, ÅŸi mai ales foarte puÅ£ini b?rbaÅ£i, sînt dispuÅŸi s-o recunoasc?. Acesta e totuÅŸi adev?rul.

Este clar c? femeile sunt mai deÅŸtepte decît b?rbaÅ£ii. GîndiÅ£i-v? — cel mai bun prieten al lor sînt diamantele; cel mai bun prieten al b?rbaÅ£ilor este cîinele.

When Men and Women Are Both Stressed Uptight men drink alcohol and invade another country. Uptight women eat chocolate and invade shopping centers.

Sex is the price women pay for marriage. Marriage is the price men pay for sex.

El lenguaje del cuerpo es más fácil de fingir frente a hombres que frente a mujeres porque, en general, los hombres no saben interpretar muy bien el lenguaje del cuerpo.

Cuando los hombres mienten, el lenguaje de su cuerpo puede ser evidente. Cuando las mujeres mienten, prefieren aparentar estar ocupadas.