Quotes About Gender

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.

The truth is that to displease men, to disobey them, is still deadly for women. But the truth also is that only when we stop obeying men do we truly begin to live.

One of the most insistent messages from my inner voice in the last few years reaffirms the feminist revelation that among the myriad hoaxes of men, the biggest and most basic is what we are socialized to perceive as real.

I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

Should I tolerate it as normal male behaviour, like when he gets a cold and starts Googling nose cancer symptoms discharge nostrils ?

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

Men know life too early women know life too late.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

Husbands are the leftovers of a stew called love –she thought—, and with hair on their faces.

The X chromosome does most of the heavy developmental lifting, while the little Y has been shedding its associated genes at a rate of about five every one million years, committing suicide in slow motion. It's now down to less than 100 genes. By comparison, the X chromosome carries about 1,500 genes, all necessary participants in embryonic construction projects. These are not showing any signs of decay.

Other labs have extended his work, finding that women recall more emotional autobiographical events, more rapidly and with greater intensity, than men do. Women consistently report more vivid memories for emotionally important events such as a recent argument, a first date, or a vacation.

Spirits, when they please,Can either sex assume, or both.

Dalila: In argument with men a woman everGoes by the worse, whatever be her cause.Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Women who are encouraged to complain of 'harassment' have never felt the nasty draft that whistles round a man subjected to female scrutiny. The masculine leer at least is warmed by the breath of inquisitive lust. It may be tedious, even offensive, but it must be preferable to the rubber-glove approach of the female National Health Medical: one's brains as well as balls are up for grabs.

Quinby thinks George W. Bush is evil, to some degree, because he has a penis.

While a man is limited to four wives under a full marriage contract, there is no limit to how many temporary wives he may have, though, as ever, the unmarried women allowed to enter into sigeh partnerships are limited to one temporary husband at a time. The man can also divorce his temporary wife at any time during the contract, whereas the woman cannot.

If single Western women travelers have a hard time in Luxor, it is as nothing as compared to what single Western men have to suffer.

Indeed, if they had read Moubayed's article, what might have struck them most is that they appeared only as a supporting cast, their safety and well-being hardly given a nod to. The thrust of the argument was that prostitution should be accepted because it benefits men. Nor was Moubayed's flip remark to me about the material obsessions of "nagging" women an Oscar-winning moment.

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

And now, it seems, they are all here: the handsome masculine ones desired alike by men and women; the gushing swishes, hands aflutter like wings; the few stray women secure among the men who will idolize them but not love them; and as in any group of homosexuals and those lured for whatever reason to them, there is here a mood of superficial good humor, of euphoria bordering on hysteria. So