Quotes About Gender

For Liz, all American men were divided into two classes: those who treated you as if you were a frail old lady, and those who treated you as if you were just frail.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him.

Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love. Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about?

Jake fried up the fish, cooked rice with garlic, cilantro and green onions. Someday he was going to make some woman a wonderful wife.

What shocked Yoav was that every couple he'd jobbed for had evinced this divide—straight or gay, irrespective of gender, there was always a leader, a commander, as implacable as an apartment's dimensions, or a circuitbreaker impeding at midwall.

The girls had a misguided trust in the circumcised.

David chopped and grimaced. "To be honest," he said, "I never understood anything with a dick in it.

Or else the rallies are just for political bros to meet women. To try and fuck women. Divest, boycott. Enough with the torture, let's bone.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

the Equals "stressed the importance of women because of the influence exercised by 'this interesting sex.'" They were thought especially important in attracting soldiers to the revolutionary cause.

The verb "un-man" is defined in a nineteenth-century dictionary as "to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish." In other words, there was a sense that truly going off the deep end—being unable to work or function, as happens in the disease of depression—ran contrary to true masculinity.

Granted, your hard-working hubby is doing his fair share just by bringing home the bacon. But by encouraging him to take on a couple of those tasks himself, he'll soon have more respect for all you do on your family's behalf. If his excuse for turning you down is that he's "too tired" or that "it's women's work," there is a simple way to convince him otherwise: food poisoning.

Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal of clichés and materials for describing men seems smaller. Many feminists are right to claim that the male is on the whole less objectified than the female; the male is treated more frequently as the subject rather than the object.

So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question." [ Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]

You're sure he's not a cross-dresser?" Diana asked.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

The women congregated in the kitchen or, in warm weather, sat in rocking chairs on the shady porches. The few men present squatted and talked in the yard or sat on a porch on the opposite side of the house.

Mujeres somos y hemos de defendernos en un mundo mal guisado por hombres turbulentos y menguados de raciocinio.

Señora, inspector. Lo de señorita es machista.

Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

Foolish men who accusea woman mindlessly—you cannot even seeyou cause what you abuse.