Quotes About Gender

Os homens, de modo geral, não sabem o quanto destroem seu próprio prazer quando esquecem o respeito e o carinho devidos a nosso sexo, mesmo aquelas que vivem apenas para agradar-lhes.

You can go to thousand schools, and it's always the same. Because the standard rule of thumb is: There's the girls over here, and there's the boys over there. Separated. Which direction [do I go]?

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That's a typical tomboy thing; I did the same thing. You're just a tomboy.' But I was saying to myself, No, it's not quite like that. I don't think that's quite it.

Mrs. Abernathy frightened him, the way strong women will often frighten weak men.

She was merely doing what all young girls did, or what those who understood the nature of the balance of power between the sexes generally did. The boy wanted her, but as soon as she gave herself to Bobby unconditionally, she would cede control of the relationship to him. Better to force him to prove his loyalty to her before she surrendered herself fully.

It is not surprising that efforts to keep gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their place arise in the wedding context. Sexual orientation is a relational property; it's about the sex or gender of the people with whom you have relationships or desire to have relationships. It manifests itself in the context of those relationships, and unless it manifests itself, would-be discriminators can't target it.

She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.

Divorced?' 'Separated.' He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")

Men are men, but Man is a woman. —Chesterton

A whole hospital ward seemed to be crossdressing, nurses pretending to be mothers playing like boys with Tinkertoy babies.

An earlier image in which Theoklia and Paul were equally authoritative apostolic figures has been replaced by one in which the male is apostolic and authoritative and the female is blinded and silenced.

All were absolutely equal with each other. But in 1 Timothy, a letter attributed to Paul by later Christians though not actually written by him, women are told to be silent in church and pregnant at home (2:8–15). And a later follower of Paul inserted in 1 Corinthians that it is shameful for women to speak in church, but correct to ask their husbands for explanations at home

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

And dare love that, and say so too,And forget the He and She.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.