Quotes About Gender

Thus women's secrets I've surveyed And let them see how curiously they're made, And that, tho' they of different sexes be, Yet in the whole they are the same as we. For those that have the strictest searchers been, Find women are but men turned outside in; And men, if they but cast their eyes about, May find they're women with their inside out.

Women grow old; women cease to learn; but men, never.

It was such a nuisance that men were fundamentally polygamous. On the other hand, if they weren't… Yes, perhaps it was better this way, after all.

Tiempo atrás Norton había llegado a la convicción de que a algunas mujeres no debería permitírseles viajar en las naves espaciales; la ingravidez tenía efectos sobre sus senos que resultaban demasiado perturbadores.Ya era

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.

I am not a whole sole admirer of womankind – as you are aware, Watson.

Man or woman?" I asked. "Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.

No woman has ever killed a man while he was washing dishes.

And it was then, watching him eat before me, that I realised there was inconsistency in him. He said there was no difference between Chosen and Quelled; he said men were not more sacred than women, nor women less than men; he said we were side by side, matched in every way; he said all these things — but his life spoke differently. He still ate before me, first, as my lord. And in that simple act, he undid all his words.

Grace Paley once described the male-female writer phenomenon to me by saying, "Women have always done men the favor of reading their work, but the men have not returned the favor.

Name? the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised. Name, I said vaguely. I remembered, and told her. Age? she asked. Sex? Occupation? Writer, I said. Housewife, she said. Writer, I said. I'll just put down housewife, she said.

I have a beard,' Dr. Montague said, pleased, and looked around at them with a happy beam. 'My wife,' he told them, 'likes a man to wear a beard. Many women, on the other hand, find a beard distasteful. A clean-shaven man - you'll excuse me, my boy - never looks fully dressed, my wife tells me.' He held out his glass to Luke.

We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place—we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

I know you're looking at me and thinking: he's a woman at heart. For if he weren't he wouldn't love children so much.

My girls. Girls aren't boys, you know. Boys go to school. But what do girls do? Girls are like a bunch of geese; they sit at home, eat, and wait to grow up.

All you men are the same—you're not fit to fasten your wives' apron strings.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in (male) culture must achieve and be rated by standards of a tradition she had no part in making - and certainly there is no room in that tradition for a female view, even if she could discover what it was.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

The patriarchal family was only the most recent in a string of 'primary' social organizations, all of which defined woman as a different species due to her unique childbearing capacity. The term family was first used by the Romans to denote a social unit the head of which ruled over wife, children, and slaves - under Roman law he was invested with the rights of life and death over them all; famulus means domestic slave, and familia is the total number of slaves belonging to one man.