Quotes About Gender

Não se parcela a liberdade: a mulher livre sê-lo-á amiúde contra o homem. Mesmo a Bela Adormecida no bosque pode despertar com desprazer, pode não reconhecer em quem a acorda um Príncipe Encantado, pode não sorrir.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

Mystère pour l'homme, la femme est regardée comme mystère en soi.

It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space… They live disbursed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men- fathers or husbands- more closely than to other women.

We have seen that in spite of legends, no physiological destiny imposes eternal hostility on the Male and Female.

Trudno bowiem m??czy?nie oceni? ogromne znaczenie dyskryminacji spoÅ'ecznych, które na zewnÄ…trz wydajÄ… siÄ™ bÅ'ahe, a których konsekwencje moralne i intelektualne tkwiÄ… w kobiecie tak gÅ'Ä™boko, ?e wydajÄ… siÄ™ mie? ?ródÅ'o w jej pierwotnej strukturze.

Today, the majority of workers are exploited. Moreover, social structures have not been deeply modified by the changes in women's condition. This world has always belonged to men and still retains the form they have imprinted on it.

bstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

To 'remake woman', society would have had to have already made her really man's equal.

Many young couples give the impression of perfect equality. But as long as the man has economic responsibility for the couple, it is just an illusion.

L'homme a réussi à asservir la femme : mais dans cette mesure il l'a dépouillée de ce qui en rendait la possession désirable.

Essere donna non è un dato naturale, ma il risultato di una storia. Non c'è un destino biologico e psicologico che definisce la donna in quanto tale. Tale destino è la conseguenza della storia della civiltà, e per ogni donna la storia della sua vita.

If the question of women is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a quarrel; when people quarrel, they no longer reason well.

Aristotle said. "We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness." And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an "incomplete man," an "incidental" being.

In all my games, my day-dreams, and my plans for the future I never changed myself into a man; all my imagination was devoted to the fulfilment of my destiny as a woman.

C'est en grande partie l'angoisse d'être femme qui ronge le corps féminin.

Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.

During the nineteenth century, woman in her turn is freed from nature; she wins control of her body. Relieved of a great number of reproductive servitudes, she can take on the economic roles open to her, roles that would ensure her control over her own person.

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

Membre d'une espèce privilégiée, bénéficiant au départ d'une avance considérable, si dans l'absolu un homme ne valait pas plus que moi, je jugerais que, relativement, il valait moins : pour le reconnaître comme mon égal, il fallait qu'il me dépassât.

No one is more arrogant, more aggressive or more disdainful towards women, than a man who is fearful for his masculinity.

To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

U lepo obu?enoj i iski?enoj ženi priroda je prisutna, ali je zarobljena, modelirana ljudskom voljom po želji muškarca. Žena je utoliko privla?nija ukoliko je njena priroda bujnija i u njoj pot?injenija - to je žena sofisti?ke opsene koja je uvek bila idealni erotski objekat.