Quotes About Gender

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs

There are three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere: "Hold my purse."

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.

The burning of Joan was an attempt to deaden a great deal more than a young woman with pretensions of prophesy. It was also an attempt to eradicate the nascent possibility of agency in a woman, of a possible weakness in the dominant discourse, requiring constant vigilance and cleansing, lest it be uncovered.

The destruction of Black males for the purpose of white genetic survival is the reason behind the ever-increasing disparity between the number of Black females entering and graduating from high schools and institutions of higher education compared to the far lesser number of Black males.

All that may be true, but I cannot recognize that the negro man is the only one who has pressing claims at this hour. To-day our government needs woman's conscience as well as man's judgment. And while I would not throw a straw in the way of the colored man, even though I know that he would vote against me as soon as he gets his vote, yet I do think that woman should have some power to defend herself from oppression, and equal laws as if she were a man.

She married Mr. Gundover's Dick.

There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.

I find it hard to believe that a lady like...' Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. 'There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.' 'No, there isn't,' Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. 'Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.

Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller.

You'd know you were a boy, so she would too. If someone knows they're a man or boy, that's what matters. Outside appearences aren't important. It's what's inside that counts—who we are in our souls. She can see the truth, even if others wouldn't.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot...

Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.