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Quotes About Gender

the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.
~ June Jordan
She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat or dog, but not a woman," was her constant murmur as she shuffled around the house, oozing apology with every step.
~ Jung Chang
I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go.
~ Junot Diaz
dude never had much luck with the females (how very un-Dominican of him).
~ Junot Diaz
Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others are born of it.
~ Justice Calo Reign
You know, I've never asked why it doesn't offend your feminist principles for me to carry this beast for you." I look at it as exploiting the oppressor," she said, with a sweet smile.
~ Justin Gustainis
Let's not pretend there's no difference in how much the men get paid for doing the exact same thing as the women. Not going to change a thing pretending like I'm an ac-tor. Which is why I'm going to make my own movies and television. Acting is for those who want to be exploited by misogynist assholes.
~ Justine Larbalestier
As a result, much of what Luke has to say on the matter of gender lies hidden under layers of interpretation that we have received from earlier generations. It is therefore urgent, for the good of the church, that we continue unearthing what has been hidden. In this task, the many women who today are devoted to the careful study of the biblical text are making an important contribution.
~ Justo L. González
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
~ Juvenal
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
~ Juvenal
I do housework," she said, "and I mend clothes. I'd do a proper job if I could. I'd have been a surgeon, like my father, except it's not allowed." He frowned. "It isn't?" "Of course not. Women can't be surgeons or clerks or lawyers or lecturers at Temple or merchants. There's not actually a law, but there doesn't have to be. People wouldn't stand for it.
~ K.J. Parker
I could unleash violence and death on women and children in Mahec, but I could no more hit a woman than fly in the air; because I'm civilised, I suppose.
~ K.J. Parker
Ach, meine Liebe, seien Sie nicht zu dogmatisch in Ihrer Verachtung für das starke Geschlecht. Wer weiß, wenn Ihnen nur der Richtige über den Weg läuft …
~ Kai Meyer
what is amazing in nature is that the female, because of their role to protect their young and to protect their family or social group, are the ones with the keener sense of awareness. Yet this is the opposite with humans where the females are less aware of danger and less able to personally defend and protect themselves as well as their young. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA
~ Kailin Gow
If your women are strong and fierce warriors, just think how the men are! - Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
And they say women act on emotions when it comes to cars." - Simone Fortuna in Anti-Nice Guy: Rip by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
You sound like a Renaissance man," I said. "I am," Derek said. "I don't care about how I'm supposed to act because I'm a guy. I do what I do because it's the right thing to do as a human, not by gender." - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
But, Miss Spencer, I should strike a note of caution. I know there have been women archaeologists in Greece, in Turkey. Even Egypt. But this is Peshawar. Pathan men don't much like the idea of women...' 'Don't much like the idea of women doing what?' 'Don't much like the idea of women.
~ Kamila Shamsie
For girls, becoming women was inevitability, for boys, becoming men was ambition.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Why the devil they have to put that 'girlie girlie' tea party description every time they tell anything a professional woman does, is more than I can see.
~ Karen Abbott
We see women on the field; we see them interviewing players, we see them coming out of the dugout. But if you put them in the booth - like, hold up, wait a second - you haven't been there before. This is different.
~ Jessica Mendoza
I've always said in interviews that I am a man I've never claimed to be anything but. Other than for performances, the women's clothing is in a box.
~ Divine
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
~ Peter Temple
We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.
~ Emma Hayes