Quotes About Gender

That's why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.

The fact is, said d'Uberville drily, whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your own part. That's just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.

Es muy difícil para una mujer expresar sus sentimientos en un lenguaje que, principalmente, sirve para que los hombres expresen los suyos.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. My

is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don't choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

Of all the ingenious and cruel satires that from the beginning till now have been stuck like knives into womankind, surely there is not one so lacerating to them, and to us who love them, as the trite old fact, that the most wretched of men can, in the twinkling of an eye, find a wife ready to be more wretched still for the sake of his company. Edward hastened to despatch his

The flowers in the bride's hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!" "Still, Sue, it is no worse for the woman than for the man. That's what some women fail to see, and instead of protesting against the conditions they protest against the man, the other victim; just as a woman in a crowd will abuse the man who crushes against her, when he is only the helpless transmitter of the pressure put upon him.

Es difícil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos.

The fact is, said d'Urberville, drily; whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your part. That's just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.

tis a talent of the female race that low numbers should stand for high, more especially in matters of waiting, matters of age, and matters of money.

He [Mr. Melbury] knew that a woman once given to a man for life took, as a rule, her lot as it came and made the best of it, without external interference; but for the first time he asked himself why this so generally should be done.

Women may be bad, but they are not so bad as men in these things!

promise that. I shall have no bailiff; I shall continue to be my own manager, she said decisively. Very well, then; you should be thankful to me for biding. How would the farm go on with nobody to mind it but a woman?

Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

Clarice sabía lo que suele ocurrirle a una mujer si deja que se le cuelgue la etiqueta de secretaria: de secretaria se queda por los siglos de los siglos.

a woman who brings a child every two years [is] more profitable than the best man of the farm.

He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

B?rbatul se îmbat? cu propria dorin??, iar femeia cere È™i aÈ™teapt? s? fie îmb?tat? de dorinÈ›a b?rbatului. De aici provine pentru noi obligaÈ›ia pasiunii, de aici decurge înfior?toarea ruÈ™ine a insensibilit??ii, a neputinÈ›ei de a trezi dorinÈ›a femeii.

She was not a woman; but she was not a man either and therefore not a human being. A solemn angel of daring with parted lips and dilated nostrils, that is what she was, an unapproachable Amazon of the realms of space beneath the canvas, high above the crowd, whose lust for her was transformed into awe.

Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.

When women are stressed they move towards interaction and do what she called  "tend and befriend."  Males on the other hand, moved towards action (fight) or inaction (flight).

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.