Quotes About Gender

"Women," she said, with tears in her eyes, "can only love; men act; they have a thousand ways in which they are bound to act. But we can only think, and pray, and worship."

Therefore you see, my friend, that I am not a woman. You do wrong to love me. What! am I to leave the ethereal regions of my pretended strength, make myself humbly small, cringe like the hapless female of all species, that you may lift me up? and then, when I, helpless and broken, ask you for help, when I need your arm, you will repulse me! No, we can never come to terms.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

If a woman so much as stands alone and by herself somewhere, all sorts of men gather around her showing their teeth.

We have to labour in the fields as hard as men do, and then on top of that, struggle to bear and raise our children. As for the men, their work ends when they've finished in the fields. If you are born into this world, it is best you were born a man. Born as women, what good do we get? We only toil in the fields and in the home until our very vaginas shrivel.

Even though they are male, because they are Dalits, they have to be like dogs with their tails rolled up when they are in the fields, and dealing with their landlords, There is no way they can show their strength in those circumstances. So they show it at home on their wives and children. But then, is it the fate of our women to be tormented both outside their houses and within?

Hace mucho tiempo que me convertí en una mujer, pero estaba convencida de que, en algún lugar dentro de mí, existía un yo masculino, mi verdadero yo, y de que estaba desempeñando simplemente el papel de mujer. Pero soy mujer en cuerpo y alma. Soy realmente tu madre, ¿verdad? Me estoy riendo.

Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car." "Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing. "Right, right, even though she was a man.

The truth is, men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. We are all earthlings whose penises and vaginas came from exactly the same type of fetal tissue. This is why, in addition to penises and vaginas, we also have a wide spectrum of intersex genitals, which medical science is only now slowly coming to accept as 'normal.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer.

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.

Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect and it is often rather a cowardly way.

Well, I shouldn't like my wife to do housework in the evenings, would you?' 'No, I suppose not, but women usually have their own way.

I forebore to remark that women like me really expected very little - nothing, almost.