Quotes About Gender

The woman of the mountains leads a difficult life, while the man is lord of the household. Whether he works, visits, or roams through the woods with dog and gun is nobody's business but his own. . . . He is entirely unable to understand any interference in his affairs by society; if he turns his corn into "likker," he is dealing with what is his. • WPA, The WPA Guide to Kentucky

Women, the clerk announced, would be allowed to leave several minutes before the men at lunchtime and at the end of the day in order to prepare meals, a fact which caused Beth to roll her eyes.

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

Last time I looked, God gave 'em two arms and two legs, just like the men.' - Miss O'Hare

Men expected women to be calm, collected, cooperative, and chaste. Eccentric conduct was frowned upon, and any female who got too far out of line could be in serious trouble. Virginia Culin Roberts, 'The Women Was Too Tough

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 shut you up with a fist. Just like that.' ... 'Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.

I thought I could live as I wanted, long as I didn't hurt nobody. But I've had time to think in here—and I worked it out. 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.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Roles lack two essential ingredients: flexibility and honesty. In trying to define natural femininity, it's really important that we don't make it a role; it must be about something we are, not merely what we act like.

In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

See how (for instance) the cultural can be freed from the tyranny of the natural; gender from biology; how social change has occurred, and how it can change again; how to reveal and defend (without fetishizing) cultural difference; how to make visible the 'political unconscious' of our culture.

If evolution gave men and women different sets of desires and skills, for example, that would be an obstacle to achieving gender equality in many professions. If nativism could be used to justify existing power structures, then nativism must be wrong. (Again, this is a logical error, but this is the way righteous minds work.)

Race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, ethnicity, nation, religion, and age are categories of analysis, terms that reference important social divisions. But they are also categories that gain meaning from power relations of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class exploitation.60

A man with a sense of humor. Women claim that's important. It is if there's also money and a functional penis. Enough money, eliminate the penis.

I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.

Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.

Bunny, Top and Cole kept themselves belted in and braced, because Lydia Rose drove like a maniac. "She's going to kill us all," yelled Cole. "Don't want to play the man card here," yelled Top, "but woman up." "'Woman up' is not a thing, you sexist freak.

We name and talk of a problematic 'transvestism,' the desire to dress in the clothes of the other sex. We do not usually name and speak of the strong desire to dress in the clothes of one's own sex. But why would most of us feel intense anxiety at dressing publicly in the clothes of the other sex? Does not our fervid desire to dress in the clothes of our own sex suggest a mystery to be explored?

The 2015 World Happiness Report finds that women's life evaluations are on average slightly higher than men's, but that the differences are very small.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Okay...' I hurried on. 'But why me?' 'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?' 'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.' 'Oh, it's much the same thing.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

He lifted his hands and cupped her face. "You might have the courage of a man, Bethany, but you must be taught you are a woman. And I can...and will...mean more to you than anyone else ever could.