Quotes About Gender

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained with that in view.

But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.

I have been thinking-- He chuckled. Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do, he said.

Åžimdi benden de güce ya da kendi karar?m? verme hakk?na sahip olmas?z?n yaln?zca bir öpücük veya tatl? bir f?s?lt?yla seviÅŸip, kad?nlarla erkeklerin yatak odalar?nda yapt?klar? diÄŸer tüm ÅŸeyleri yaparak ikna gücümü kullanmam m? isteniyordu? Maalesef bunu düÅŸünmek bile midemi buland?r?yordu. (syf. 50)

Women were created to be like flowers, providing color and beauty to the world. We leave troubling matters to men.

My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women.

El recuerdo de los hombres nunca surge con esa deslumbrante luminosidad que acompaña al de las mujeres

Men cannot stand a woman who writes. That's a cruel thing for men. It's hard for all of them.

Un hombre que lee, que piensa o que calcula, pertenece a la especie y no al sexo; en sus mejores momentos llega a escapar de lo humano.

Reg?seam peste tot faÈ›a aceea unic?: amalgamam personajele divine, sexele È™i atributele eterne, pe dura Dian? a p?durilor cu melancolicul Bachus, pe vigurosul Hermes al palestrelor cu zeul bivalent al iubirii, dormind cu capul pe un mald?r de flori. Constatam cât de mult seam?n? virilei Atena un tân?r c?zut pe gânduri.

Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.

Real men don't kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly's wing.

But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.

as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. "But you've loads of shoes," he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don't get it, do they? They're definitely missing the shoe chromosome.