Quotes About Gender

A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.

She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age. Because often old men's voices grow high and reedy and the take on a mincing walk. And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and the grow dark little mustaches.

When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

Even if a slave woman became pregnant by another man because of rape, there is evidence that some black men were unwilling to be understanding of the situation.

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

Why is it that people always put women in the same category as cars and holidays, as though we're prizes on a game show? If I had millions you'd hardly hear people saying, Jesus, would ya look at that Rosie Dunne. All she does is spend her money on shoes, clothes and men. Doesn't sound quite right, does it?

Se întâmpla ca o femeie s? întâlneasc? o epav? ÅŸi s? decid? s? fac? din ea un b?rbat s?n?tos. Uneori, reuÅŸeÅŸte. Se întâmpl? ca o femeie s? întâlneasc? un b?rbat s?n?tos ÅŸi s? decid? s? fac? din el o epav?. Chestia asta îi reuÅŸeÅŸte întotdeauna.

It struck her how a man could seem to gain a little bit of magic or grace or virtue with every woman he was with, but that a woman--though she said maybe should should be fair and just speak for herself--relinquished something each time, even if it ended mutually and well.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it—sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick.

Since he'd had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew)

Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.

Athletes make nothing like the money that footballers or even cricketers earn. If you are a female athlete you are at the bottom of the ladder.

I think people should feel less restricted by the perimeters of things like 'menswear' and 'womenswear.' It's not something that I really give much credence to when I'm buying clothes. I buy mostly ladies clothes. I think to be yourself, first and foremost, that's the easiest way to think about it.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

I love it when a man knows his place - right, ladies?

I wrote about ladies who had come through the studio. I get asked, 'Is it a choice to gender the music or put pronouns in?' and for me, it just wasn't a choice.

You have some cities that are saying that if you have a man who feels like he's a woman, he can use the women's restroom. I guarantee you that will be taken advantage of by some very bad men who want to go into a bathroom where there's young ladies. That will happen if you pass a law like that.

I can't imagine living in a time where us women had to dress like 'ladies' because that is what was expected of us.

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

No lady is ever a gentleman.