Quotes About Gender

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

They might sound revolting to you, but astonishingly, Will Traynor, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?" Margery said finally. "Ain't the hurt. It's that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it don't matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them, period. It's when you realize they can always just shut you up with a fist. Just like that.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn't I? I had come here and it had cost me dear.

And there is the bare truth of it, for her and all the women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.

She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it's so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she's been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.

I wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.

thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

I was wearing a man's style blue shirt—it was easier to feel confident if you were wearing men's clothes.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn't I?

You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?' Margery said finally. 'Ain't the hurt. It's that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn't matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them, period. It's when you realize they can always just shut you up with a fist. Just like that

women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers.

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.