Quotes About Gender

enamoré de la democracia, ¿qué le parece?… Pero es una mujer que paga mal.

el principio es cierto: la debilidad sienta bien a una mujer, y nosotras lo sabemos. Nos interesa parecer delicadas y necesitadas del hombre.

el día en pedir, y la noche en conceder. Es el marido quien debería influir en la mujer; pero como las tres cuartas partes de los hombres carecen de carácter, de fuerza y de dignidad, son ellas quienes se hacen cargo a menudo de las cosas... Aquí

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

Oh, ma syngué sabour, quand c'est dur d'êre femme, ça devient dur d'être homme!

Ah siz erkekler! Elinize silah geçti?inde kad?nlar?n?z? unutursunuz.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs, senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Men might rule the world, but women created life, made it grow within them. Without the womb there was no kingdom to govern, and a king was as useless as the next man.

Did he contain himself as he felt inside Elva's vagina, smooth like a cul-de-sac, with no discernible cervix, no peekaboo womb or errant fallopian tubes? Did he express surprise or consternation upon uncovering what lay before him, an extra . . . what? No, not an unusually large, blushing labia, but a real-life miniature penis, one that could become aroused with certain thoughts or feelings, but which at that moment remained flaccid between his cold, clinical fingers.

Pa?ios meil?s, kaip ir g?l?s, amžius neilgas. Vyro meil? miršta nat?ralia mirtimi santuokoje, o moters meil? dažnai tveriai iki pat galo, virtusi grynai motinišku švelnumu nuvainikuotam savo svajoni? didvyriui.

If feminism means anything at all, women with power should be addressing their energies to help the girls and women who suffer the pain of genital mutilation, who are at risk of being murdered because of their Western lifestyle and ideas, who must ask for permission just to leave the house, who are treated no better than serfs, branded and mutilated, traded without regard to their wishes. If you are a true feminist, these women should be your first priority.

The will of little girls is stifled by Islam. By the time they menstruate they are rendered voiceless. They are reared to become submissive robots who serve in the house as cleaners and cooks. They are required to comply with their father's choice of a mate, and after the wedding their lives are devoted to the sexual pleasures of their husband and to a life of childbearing.

Excision of my genitals didn't eliminate the human sex drive, and neither did the fear of hellfire. Repression only led to hypocrisy and lying, strategies that corrupt the human individual, and it failed to protect people from unwanted pregnancy and disease. The

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

Jamal, the Communist in Kram, said around five hundred men from the district had gone, and that the recruiters received a generous fee, about $3,000, for each young man they sent to a battlefield. Female recruits garnered slightly less.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Seriously? You tried to ride a bucking horse?" "You did the same thing." He nodded. "But you're..." "Female? You noticed." She grinned at him and realized she was flirting about the same time he did.

If I could, I'd change the way I came up through the football ranks. I'd love to have had an academy life the way the boys have it. I think female footballers would be so much better for having that opportunity, and we'd be more effective because we would be better players.