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Quotes About Gender

Boys need to talk more. Boys need to say things and not assume things. You and my pa and Steffan and everyone, you're going to make us girls insane!
~ Shannon Hale
She believed now in earnest that fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
~ Shannon Hale
Awh hell," muttered Drake, "do you do that to all the human women?" "No, usually they've started taking their clothes off by now. She's beginning to hurt my feelings." (Logan) "We need to get you a paper bag or a scar or something. (Drake) "Yeah," he said in a dry tone. "I'll get right to work on that." (Helen spellbound-meeting Logan the Vampire for the first time)
~ Shannon K. Butcher
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
~ Shannon Lucid
Sean, this is Paulie Reed, my head bartender, assistant manager and all-around right-hand man. Woman. Person. Right-hand person.
~ Shannon Stacey
I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.
~ Sharon Creech
When I was a girl the books I read were by men
~ Sharon Doubiago
I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.
~ Sharon Gless
Worrying about how you look to others is what makes you less of a man... If you think that having my wife in breeches has taken anything away from my ability with a sword, you can test that theory later...
~ Sharon Green
Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?
~ Sharon Sala
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
~ Sharon Stone
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
~ Sharon Stone
Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I'm the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.
~ Sharon Stone
There's a little bit of a bitch in every woman - and a lot in every man. - Joan Crawford
~ Shaun Considine
Everything was female. The books in the library scene were all by female authors. The photographs and art objects were all female. Even the animals—the monkeys, the dogs, the horses—were female. I'm not sure if audiences were aware of that, but there wasn't a single male represented in the entire film, although nine-tenths of the dialogue centered around them.
~ Shaun Considine
I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to. I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness! But men have not yet changed.
~ Shauna Singh Baldwin
We grunt like mutts or faint like bitches; take your pick.
~ Shawn McBride
It's just..." She scrubbed a hand across her face. "I keep looking for someone to share life with, someone patient. Not afraid of a mop or use the stove. Even-tempered, understanding, not allergic to emotion." She closed her eyes momentarily. "Someone sweet." Hunter stifled a grimace. She was describing a female with a penis.
~ Shayla Black
The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.
~ Sheila Heti
To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly
~ Sheila Heti
Maybe I have to think about myself less as a woman with this woman's special task, and more as an individual with her own special task—not put woman before my individuality.
~ Sheila Heti
Women apologize too much, I once decided, and made myself stop, and now found it incredibly difficult to tell anyone I was sorry.
~ Sheila Heti
Love is a battle between the sexes in which the man always wins because that's more erotic for everyone!
~ Sheila Heti