Quotes About Gender

Mr. Arevalo was very tall and stooped when he walked, He had a woman's voice and a dog's face.

We can't distinguish between male and female blue tits by sight: blue tits can because the male possesses an ultraviolet crest. Such a bird would find our three-coloured televisions incomprehensibly drab.)

the hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.

We all value social relationships, but are there differences in what each sex values about other people? Women tend to value the development of altruistic, reciprocal relationships. Such relationships require good empathizing skills. In contrast, men tend to value power, politics, and competition. This pattern is found across widely different cultures and historical periods, and is even found among chimpanzees.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).

(To a lady cellist) Madame, you have between your legs the most beautiful instrument known to man, and all you can do is scratch it !

Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around.

And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?

Los patriarcas nos defraudan. No ven y no escuchan. Suelen permanecer ciegos y hacer oídos sordos a las mujeres, se pavonean, alardean y actúan como si no estuviéramos allí. Y no siempre son hombres. A veces son mujeres, también ciegas que se odian a sí mismas. Están atrapadas en los hábitos perceptivos de los siglos, en las expectativas que han llegado a gobernar su mente.

I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

It is not that there is no difference between men and women; it is how much difference that difference makes, and how we choose to frame it.

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.