Quotes About Gender

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

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

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.

Now, when you piss off a guy, you don't gotta say you're sorry even after you shoot 'em in the head with bird shot, but when you piss off a girl, saying 'I'm sorry' ain't even good enough. You gotta say it about a hundred times, and you gotta yammer on and on about how dumb you are and how you don't blame 'em if they never speak to you again.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

She'd sighed the kind of long-suffering sigh he knew women gave when men were too thick-headed to understand the mysteries women were born understanding.

Muy pocas mujeres en tal o cual comité ejecutivo. Otra junta directiva sin mujeres. Hombres que toman decisiones sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres. Clubes para caballeros. Los derechos de los hombres. Las revistas de mujeres. Feminismo. Hasta nunca.

El papel de chica. Poner vocecita de niña. Usar zapatos planos para asegurarte de no ser más alta que él. La mano grande en tu hombro. Él diciéndote que todo saldrá bien. «Estás guapísima», dicho así,con esa autoridad. Dejarle tomar el mando. Dejarle conducir. Dejarle decidir. Él llevándote en brazos a la cama. El subidón de sentirte sexualmente indefensa ante eso. Ser un objeto de deseo para los hombres. Hasta nunca.

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!

Rolling eyes = feminist pedagogy.

Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.

Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a "yes.

We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

Women who sought ways to limit the size of their families were to Comstock proof that humankind was on the brink of self-destruction. But not all women; he focused his ire on white women of good families, who were obliged, in his view of the world, to provide heirs for the ruling class.

Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.

Women who did not adhere to the ideals of the time, whose interests and behaviors were considered abnormal and unnatural, were sometimes committed to hospitals and asylums, and in extreme cases they were subjected to castration and female circumcision.

But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.

Girls fight much dirtier than boys

It's ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?' In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail.