Quotes About Gender

Yes, Hitler failed. But We will succeed. And women? Women will be out! They represent weakness!—but still they want to dominate their Masters—The Male!

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

They have sex. They do not have a sex. In their erotic lives, they are not required to act out their status in a category system—because there is no category system. There are no sexes to belong to, so sex between creatures is free to be between genuine individuals—not representatives of a category. They have sex. They do not have a sex.

The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

It is useless for me to say that those who maintain the doctrine that men have a right to command and women are under an obligation to obey, or that men are fit for government and women unfit, are on the affirmative side of the question, and that they are bound to show positive evidence for the assertions, or submit to their rejection.

Estou convencido de que as relações sociais dos dois sexos, que subordinam um sexo a outro em nome da lei, são más em si mesmas e constituem um dos principais obstáculos que se opuseram ao progresso da humanidade; estou convencido de que devem ser substituídas por uma igualdade perfeita.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

Adam says to God, "God, why did you make women so soft?" God says, "So that you will like them." Adam says, "God, why did you make women so warm and cuddly?" God says, "So that you will like them." Adam says to God, ''But, God, why did you make them so stupid?" God says, "So that they will like you.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

The presumption that Jesus who had wiped out the ancient bias against women in the common priesthood of the faithful, would reintroduce it in ministerial priesthood defies all logic. The contention that Jesus, who brought worship 'in spirit and in truth' and for whom love and service were the supreme characteristics of his ministry, would then introduce maleness as an essential requirement offends the inner consistency of the Gospel.

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

Was Terentia content to be a woman, as I was not? When I lived in the world, I believed that she was content, and had a secret contempt for her. Now I do not know. I do not know the human heart of another; I do not even know my own.

Male violence toward women originated with agriculture, which transmuted women into beasts of burden and breeders of children.

Men are not forced to turn their desolation to advantage as women are. It's easier for them to dissipate their passion, quell their restlessness in other ways.

A medida que envejecían, las mujeres parecían volverse cada vez más masculinas, mientas que el señor Osmond, en cambio, se parecía cada día más a una vieja

Lucky for us Emily was not a man," said Julia, "or she might have drunk herself to death at the Black Bull. It was better to write Wuthering Heights, but she really had no choice.

Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago.

Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.