Quotes About Gender

I believe that in the last century men have developed the desire for work, and they must not starve it. It's a new desire. It goes with a great deal that's bad, but in itself it's good, and I hope that for women, too, 'not to work' will soon become as shocking as 'not to be married' was a hundred years ago.

Girls like Lucy were charming to look at, but Mr. Beebe was, from rather profound reasons, somewhat chilly in his attitude towards the other sex, and preferred to be interested rather than enthralled.

For he believed that women revere men for their manliness.

I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

I mean the idea that women are always thinking of men. If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: "Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else." It's disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can't break it off for the sake of freedom.

man that is born of a woman must go with a woman if the human race is to continue" - sense of prejudice towards homosexuality

Helen, what a memory you have for some things! You're perfectly right. It's a room that men have spoilt through trying to make it nice for women. Men don't know what we want— " "And never will." "I don't agree. In two thousand years they'll know.

I shall stick to it," she continued, smiling. "I am not saying it to educate you; it is what I really think. I believe that in the last century men have developed the desire for work, and they must not starve it. It's a new desire. It goes with a great deal that's bad, but in itself it's good, and I hope that for women, too, 'not to work' will soon become as shocking as 'not to be married' was a hundred years ago.

the actual deed of sex seemed to him unimaginative, and best veiled in night. Between men it is inexcusable, between man and woman it may be practised since nature and society approve, but never discussed nor vaunted.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it!

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Hakikatte kad?nlar, bu alem içinde ba?ka bir alemde ya?arlar. ?çine a?klar?n? ve büyülerini üfledikleri bir alemdir bu. Erkekler biteviye o alemi h?rpalar, y?kar. Kad?nlar ise yeniden üfleyerek nefesleriyle kurarlar o alemi. Kad?nlar, erkekleri de üfleyerek var ederler. Bir erkek, bir kad?n?n nefesi kadard?r; ba?ka hiçbir ?ey de?ildir.

Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.

Chasing Around Woman is not considered manly among Italins, It's a sign of weak character

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

For men roses are friends, and for women roses are beauty.

Mave started screaming again, pointing to the ceiling as Bob drifted down and began running his tentacles all over the stump. "Holy crap," Hank said. "It's okay!" Wee'git said. "It's just a transdimensional being that's gotten stuck in the liminal space between our universe and his. Hers. Theirs. I'm not really an expert on octopus genders.

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?