Quotes About Gender

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

Arkie took a dim view of patriarchal institutions - religion, capitalism, marriage. She liked to quote one of her professors at a woman's college: "He has to be a very good husband to e better than no husband at all.

It wasn't obvious to my generation how or if one could become oneself, an individual, without performing what the psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan memorably called a "female-female impersonation.

It's a trite saying now, been said so often, but it's true that the West was great for men and dogs but hell on women and horses.

Es posible que los términos [«femenino» y «masculino»] se comprendan mejor como diferentes modos de consciencia, o maneras diferentes de experimentar y expresar la vida en cualquier momento, al alcance de cualquier ser humano de cualquier género.

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Muž nese vinu a žena bolest. Takhle to bylo odjakživa.

Frau-Sein bedeutete nichts weiter als die Erlaubnis, sich jederzeit für unzuständig zu erklären. Egal, ob es um das Wechseln einer Glühbirne, das Töten eines Tiers oder die Entsorgung eines Querulanten ging. Die Weiber riefen "Kann ich nicht!", versteckten das Gesicht in den Händen und sahen später wieder hin, um mit Vorwürfen anzufangen, angesichts dessen, was der Mann getan hatte.

It can take a while, sometimes, to be the woman you want to be, and to excavate the misogyny or critical eye we too often internalise

This leads us to wonder if letting little boys dress up in little girl clothing is OK. After all, if girls dress up as boys, what is the difference? And then, if girls dress in pants, why shouldn't boys dress in skirts and dresses?

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Qué mundo es éste en el que las mujeres necesitan que unos hombres las protejan de otros hombres! Más os valía cambiar vosotros en vez de meternos en jaulas para que otros no puedan dañarnos.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

But when he said he couldn't shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of sense to tell him that Hermione couldn't dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut. Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction.

If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase "roast beef and pudding".

He rolled his eyes. Why was he surprised about anything having to do with her? Of course she'd be able to lift a large stone. She was Henry. She could probably lift him.

isn't patience a virtue?" "Absolutely not," Lady Danbury said emphatically, "and if you think so, you're less of a woman than I thought.

I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir." "That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted. "Females are a prodigious amount of work.