Quotes About Gender

as if being born a girl makes her responsible for everyone alive.

War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat...

Do women need circles drawn in dust to protect them? But my brother took her from there, from the narrow confines of the circle where she stood, and brought her here. He offered her the freedom of this entire country. Was that captivity?

the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Sometimes it's the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.

The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

That horse dick he got swinging between his legs is just full of that there compassion

It is not that female characters in the modern novel are characterizations of bad or limited people—although, incidentally, they almost always are—but that they are badly drawn, because the writers flatly refuse to apply the same complex of literary artifice in their character realizations to both males and females—out of habits that begin as a response to some terror that human individuation would make the female characters equal to the males.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!

What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Margrie himself was made the first 'Mr London', a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new evolutionary stage in human development, which he called Peckham Man. It never ceases to amaze me how many women struggle with self-belief while the vast majority of men have no trouble with it at all. He must have been insufferable.

For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.

In October 2015 Emily Temple-Wood, one of the site's long-standing editors, told the Atlantic magazine that she had identified almost 4400 female scientists who met Wikipedia's inclusion standards but did not have a page. For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.

It never ceases to amaze me how many women struggle with self-belief while the vast majority of men have no trouble with it at all.

In medieval times there was great anxiety over the belief that witches liked to steal penises and keep them as pets.

People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender