Quotes About Gender

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

I remember a woman, speaking at a ceremony when Anne was given an award for National Women's Health Week. She said, "women need to work in medical research, and in applied medicine, because too many men treat women's bodies like they are just men's bodies with female parts, but our bodies are fundamentally different and need to be treated that way.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?

men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn't tolerate pain well.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

In another paper, titled "Boys Will Be Boys," they showed that men acted on their useless ideas significantly more often than women, and that as a result women achieved better investment results than men.

In 1979, only 40 percent of American men with at least a college degree had wives who also had at least graduated from college. By 2016 the comparable percentage was 70 percent.

In the early American republic, the most significant challenge to the traditional assumption that the worth of human beings depended on their race, class, and gender came from the scriptural teachings that all are equal in the sight of God and all are one in Christ.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

When we graduate, our first thought is not, Whom will I marry? but, What will I do? And when we do marry, we take for granted that our husbands will treat us as equals, with dreams and ambitions like theirs, and not as creatures uniquely destined to push a vacuum or change a diaper.

If previous generations of women were raised to believe that they could only realise themselves within the roles of wife and mother, now the opposite is thought true: It is only outside these roles that we are able to realise our full potential and worth as human beings.

Sam crossed to the other set of stairs and moved up them quickly. As it wasn't proper for men to see women walking up the stairs, where they might accidentally catch the view of her ankle or, heaven forbid, her calf, many of Charleston's older homes were built with two sets of stairs.

Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were.

Normally when I tell people I'm a gender studies major, they look at me like I'm studying Sanskrit or Latin. But now, NOW I had something to show my family, to possibly convince them that one day I would be employable. Look! People still like feminism! Or maybe they just really like Ryan Gosling's face. But they're getting that face with a dose of feminism! Like it or not.

about 30 percent of our health and vitality is out of our control because of our genetics and gender.

He noticed that the streets didn't feel as safe when there were fewer women on them. So he launched a Night Without Men, where women were encouraged to hit the bars and restaurants and the men were encouraged to stay at home with the kids.

La mujer tiende a ver la magnitud de un problema, mientras que el hombre los minimiza al extremo.

los hombres no nacieron para «suponer» nada ni para entender «las indirectas», mientras que las mujeres se especializan en ellas.

las mujeres no sospechan que los varones podemos pasar horas enteras sin pensar, literalmente.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?