Quotes About Gender

There just seems to be…I don't know, such a lack of courtesy. A lack of respect between people in general and men and women in particular. Everywhere

Be careful of what you say, Feenah. Sophia is the female I love. If you were a male I would have to challenge you for talking about her in that manner." Sophie's

Sylvan dropped the limply dangling hand and took the other man by the chin. He stared into Burke's eyes, wide with pain and fear. "Think about this the next time you're tempted to hurt a female. Any female," he growled. "And I don't care how many years ago your encounter with Sophia was—if you ever come near her again, I'll kill you. Slowly." Then

It was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other than, "Well, I mean, she's pretty and everything..." That high gloss, which floored women, went right over men's heads. It was as though they had no receivers for her particular wavelength.

He was adequate, a typical mediocre white male whose career advanced because he was not entirely horrible. Women have to work so much harder than men to appear half as convincing.

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?

The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime; we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet."

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate.

Para de fato compreender a violência contra a mulher, precisamos observar as interseções de classe, desastres ambientais, gênero, imperialismo, militarismo, patriarcado, pobreza, racismo e guerra.

At a witch trial in 1593, the investigating lawyer (a married man) apparently discovered a clitoris for the first time; [he] identified it as a devil's teat, sure proof of the witch's guilt.

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

Winthrop was arguing for nothing more than the role expected of any seventeenth-century Englishwoman.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.

No woman is owed economic support, children, respect or love. The woman who accepts and lives by correct principles thereby earns the right to make certain demands upon her husband; being female entitles her to nothing.

The overwhelming majority of women will be happier in the long run by marrying an ordinary man and having children than by seeking sexual thrills, ascending the corporate heights or grinding out turgid tracts on gender theory. A woman develops an emotional bond with her mate through the sexual act itself; this is why arranged marriages (contrary to Western prejudice) are often reasonably happy. Romantic courtship has its charms, but is finally dispensable; marriage is not dispensable.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think! (unknown)

You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?" He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. "Who says I wear panties?" I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.

I didn't need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood. #WomensDay2020