Quotes About Gender

I wish I could just believe that God loves women, but the indoctrination I endured at the hands of well-meaning (or so I assume) Christians is difficult to erase. So I must search for believable (and scholarly) counterpoints because I don't quite trust myself. And until I can dissuade myself of the notion that God plays favorites, I cannot honestly sing or pray. Nor can I turn loose of this anger.

Cock and hands are precocious enough. They belong to a fortunate, confident man, and have traveled in time for unguessable reasons to append themselves to a teenager. Unlike them his mouth is not a foreign power; it's her own missing part.

Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.

U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

Sometimes women's soccer can be political.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.