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Quotes About Gender

Most girls I know would consider that wish fullfillment, not torture." I sat back, shaking my head. "Why does everyone keep saying that? Who says just because I'm a girl I'm hardwired to want to spent a hundred and eighty bucks on jeans?
~ Sarah Dessen
Mayonnaise," Morgan said, "is a lot like men.
~ Sarah Dessen
Most people think a girl and a guy can't just be friends, there has to be something else going on.
~ Sarah Dessen
Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.
~ Sarah Miller
She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).
~ Sarah Vowell
Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, had previously served France as both a male soldier in the Seven Years' War and a female secret agent who infiltrated the Russian monarchy, successfully befriending and convincing a Russian czarina not to become an ally of France's enemy Great Britain. No one was entirely sure of his/her gender, and he/she kept them guessing.
~ Sarah Vowell
Guys like you make life easy for some women.
~ Saul Bellow
Still women- women. They do themselves more credit, there's more reality in women. They live closer to their nature. They have to. It's more with them. They have the breasts. They see their blood, and it does them good, while men are led to be vainer.
~ Saul Bellow
Look here, because they were born you think they have to turn out to be men? That's just an old-fashioned idea. And who tells them that? A big organization. One more big organization. A big organization makes dough or it doesn't last. If it makes dough it's for dough.
~ Saul Bellow
Innately, the female knows how to cripple by sickening a man with guilt. It is a very special destruct, and she sends her curse to make a fellow impotent.
~ Saul Bellow
Tražiti ispunjenje vlastitih težnji u drugome, u me?usobnim odnosima, ženska je igra. A muškarac koji bira od žene do žene, premda u srcu osje?a bol zbog idealizma, zbog želje za ?istom ljubavi, ušao je u žensko carstvo.
~ Saul Bellow
You're very sympathetic, even the young girls feel that. You'd make a good provider. But they go more for the other types.
~ Saul Bellow
I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat. And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes.
~ Saul Williams
Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you.
~ Scott Adams
Women believe that men are, in a sense, defective versions of women, Men believe that women are defective versions of men. Both genders are trapped in a delusion that their personal viewpoints are universal. That viewpoint—that each gender is a defective version of the other—is the root of all misunderstandings.
~ Scott Adams
Men believe value is created by accomplishment, and they have objectives for the women in their lives. If a woman meets the objectives, he assumes she loves him. If she fails to meet the objectives, he will assume she does not love him. The man assumes that if the woman loved him she would have tried harder and he always believes his objectives for her are reasonable.
~ Scott Adams
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.
~ Scott Lynch
She made up this whole tale about me. I worked in the jail. I hated the men in there. Just the way she and most of the other girls hated the men in the club. That's why they seemed to do it. For the chance to look down on men, who want it so badly, so openly, and who're not going to get it.
~ Scott Turow
Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
~ Scott Westerfeld
We steal along like a snail in its shell - These women outfront instead; And that's because, on the way to Hell, The woman's a thousand steps ahead. That isn't quite the way to take it: She needs a thousand steps to make it - But no matter how fast she covers the ground, The man arrives in a single bound.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Donde no hay mujeres no existen los buenos modales
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mankind? It is an abstraction. There are, always have been, and always will be, men and only men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At least you didn't need to change your breeches." He glanced up again instantly, pinning her eyes with his, his own suddenly gone lambent. "Now why didn't I think of that? Would it inspire you to ravish me?
~ Johanna Lindsey