Quotes About Gender

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been open to interested girls. Archaeology suggests that eagle huntresses were probably more common in ancient times.

If someone says 'she' or 'he,' and it's unintentional, I can tell if it's coming from a place of love. It's only when someone misgenders me on purpose that it becomes hurtful.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.

While growing up, girls are being conditioned to feel that they have to accept their husbands any way.

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

It's no big secret that 'thinking' women, since they are already gifted with fully functioning brains, are more than happy to have a yummy not-so-smart man in their lives. All we ask for is a sense of humor, a sense of hygiene, and the sense to not cheat.

I know, being a band that's mostly gay and has women in it, I just think that there are the male icon bands: they are always - and they deserve it - but they are always touted as, 'These guys are heavy-duty.' I think bands, because we have a sense of humor, we are not always taken as seriously.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.