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Quotes About Gender

I think buddy is man talk for sweetie .
~ Emma Donoghue
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
~ Emma Goldman
Always it pays for a woman to find a lover who is weaker than she is. Weaker men can be handled; stronger men prefer to handle. - Celeste Talbot
~ Emma Merritt
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
~ Emma Thompson
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
~ Emo Philips
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
~ English proverb
One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.
~ English proverb
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
~ Enid Bagnold
Nada rebaja más a un ser humano que los piropos —concluyó—. Y a ustedes las educan para creer que son adoradas al recibirlos.
~ Enrique Serna
In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hatshepsut began to wear the traditional Pharaonic false beard and other accoutrements of office, and men's clothing with body armor to conceal her breasts and other female attributes, as can be seen in statues created at Deir el-Bahari, her mortuary temple. She also changed her name, giving it a masculine rather than a feminine ending, and became "His Majesty, Hatshepsu." In other words, she ruled as a man, a male pharaoh, not simply as regent.
~ Eric H. Cline
compensation that was often paid not to the victim herself but to her father or husband, since rape counted less as sexual violence against a woman than as a property crime against her male guardian.
~ Eric Jager
Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women. All
~ Eric Metaxas
She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men. Everyone
~ Eric Metaxas
men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.
~ Eric Metaxas
The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards. The
~ Eric Metaxas
We are saying that women -- as a sex -- are not more sinful than men. Women are not more deceivable than men. Women are not less intelligent than men. Women are not more prone to error than men. Women are not more dangerous than men. Women are not more arrogant or domineering than men. Women are not to be viewed with more suspicion than men. All women are born into sin, unrighteous by both nature and choice -- as are all men.
~ Eric Schumacher
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted
~ Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
~ Erica Jong
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
~ Erica Jong
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
~ Erica Jong
Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
~ Erica Jong
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
~ Erica Jong