Quotes About Gender

What women look like is considered important because what we say is not.

Nor has the beauty myth always been this way. Though the pairing of the older rich men with young, "beautiful" women is taken to be somehow inevitable, in the matriarchal Goddess religions that dominated the Mediterranean from about 25,000 B.C.E. to about 700 B.C.E., the situation was reversed:

Though many women realized that their attention was being focused in this way, fewer fully understood how thoroughly politically such focusing works: In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly.

A man's right to confer judgment on any woman's beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given.

Of course, men don't age any better physically. They age better only in terms of social status. We misperceive in this way since our eyes are trained to see time as a flaw on women's faces where it is a mark of character on men's.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Men die once and women die twice. Women die as beauties before their bodies die.

Today, Latvian women have become the tallest women in the world, jumping from about five foot one to five foot seven. Dutch men rose from five foot seven in 1860 to just over six feet tall, making them the tallest men on Earth.

Goddard conjured up a specter of attractive, feebleminded women wantonly seducing decent men. He warned that the country's reformatories were full of feebleminded girls who "do not conform to the conventions of society," who were "boy crazy" or, worst of all, "preferred the company of colored men to white.

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres.

Prava je razlika izme?u muškaraca i žena u tome što, dok muškarci imaju mnogo ve?i želudac od mozga i srca, žensko srce toliko je maleno da im uvijek izleti na usta.

A férfi olyan hamar felmelegszik, mint a villanykörte: egy pillanat alatt t?zbe jön, s ugyanilyen hamar ki is h?l. Ellenben a nÅ' - s ez tudományosan bizonyított tény - úgy melegszik fel, mint a vasaló. Lassan, fokozatosan forr fel, mint a jó húsleves. De ha egyszer átforrósodott, nincs, aki leh?tse.

el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. «Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

But you're the man, and you must take the lead." It was all beginning to look pretty grim. "The lead? Me?" "What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

De mujeres, y de otros menesteres mundanos, bastante mas que usted. Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara, lo cual, bien mirado, no es tan terrible por que el hombre, como nos enseña Perogrullo, obedece por contra al dictado de su aparato genital o digestivo.

The trouble is that man, going back to Freud - and excuse the metaphor - heats up like a light bulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand - and this is pure science - heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Like the steel furnaces in Vizcaya! I weighed up Fermin's thermodynamic theories.

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense," the hatter concluded sadly. "That's why you live longer.

Por qué son tan bobos a veces? —preguntó Bea. —¿Los hombres? Quién sabe. A lo mejor es porque la naturaleza es madre, aunque cruel, y los atonta de nacimiento. Pero algunos no están tan mal. —Eso

O coração de fêmea é um labirinto de subtilezas que desafia a mente grosseira do macho trapaceiro.

No hace falta que lo diga si le da vergüenza, porque los varones somos así y la testosterona no alienta al verso.

What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.