Quotes About Gender

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

Why is it when I'm the one shot, I'm a baby, but when it's you, it's a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I'm cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

In theory, vegetarianism is a lifestyle that anyone might adopt. In practice, vegetarianism is popular among a very specific slice of the general population in the Western world: young urban women. Studies of vegetarians generally find that 65 to 75% of vegetarians are female—in other words, two to three times as many women as men.

Some male vegetarians have described how their rejection of meat felt emasculating, since they were also rejecting the ancient male role of killer and griller. Vegetarians frequently try to counteract this feminine connotation by touting all the manly men who are vegetarian (Mike Tyson!). One article even profiled a few masculine kale-loving "hegans." At the very least, the protestations to the contrary show that the perception exists.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

He" was a girl indeed, Hal thought.

Zullen we om de beurt de wacht houden?' stelde ze voor. 'Fijn dat jij je daar vrijwillig voor aanbiedt,' antwoordde hij zonder zijn ogen open te doen. 'Wek me maar over twee uur.' 'Dus dat ik van het zwakke geslacht ben speelt geen enkele rol?' vroeg ze. 'Nee, absoluut niet. Leve de gelijkheid. Bovendien ben ik een oude man, dus heb ik mijn rust nodig... Het zwakke geslacht, tsss. Mijn rug op!' - Thorn en Lydia

En hoe weet je dat hij een slechte adem heeft?' Hal keek haar mismoedig aan. 'Hij is een zij, en zij is de halfgod van dans en beweging,' legde hij uit. Lydia trok een wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, van haar kun jij wel wat hulp gebruiken, te oordelen naar de manier waarop jij hier rondstrompelt.

Jongens vertrouwden steeds op hun fysieke krachten om problemen op te lossen, terwijl meisjes eerder hun verstand gebruikten.