Quotes About Gender

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

El feminismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas domésticas, en verdad esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también se trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara?

Como la aguja de una brújula apunta siempre al norte, así el dedo acusador de un hombre apunta siempre a una mujer

No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

A los quince años me alejé de la Iglesia para siempre, no por falta de fe en Dios —eso vino más tarde—, sino por el machismo inherente a toda organización religiosa. No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.

Docility, praised as a feminine virtue, is our worst enemy; it has never served us well, it is only convenient for men.

Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.

He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.

Consideraba el matrimonio como un pésimo negocio para las mujeres, en cambio lo recomendaba sin reservas a su descendencia masculina.

I thought liberation had to do with going out into the world and assuming male duties, not with delegating part of my load. The result was a terrible fatigue, as witnessed today by the millions of women of my generation who question feminist movements.

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat us & destroy us. But remember that bold women are like cockroaches: step on one & others come running from the corners.

Habrían de pasar cuarenta años para aceptar mi condición y comprender que, con el doble de esfuerzo y la mitad de reconocimiento, había logrado lo mismo que a veces consiguen algunos hombres. Hoy

At the end of the conflict, young people questioned gender division imposed by ultranationalism, refused to be classified as male or female, and rejected the use of gender-based pronouns in favor of nonbinary ones. This practice arrived in Europe and the United States several years later.

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

until women shortened their dresses and their hair and stopped wearing corsets, it made no difference if they studied medicine or had the right to vote, because they would not have the strength to do it […]

Hay una cierta soltura en la feminidad, dijeron. A los hombres los entrenan para reprimir las emociones, están limitados por la camisa de fuerza de la masculinidad.

The truth is that men control political and economic power—they make the laws and apply them at their convenience—

quien paga imparte las órdenes. Ese es el primer axioma que incorporé a mi naciente feminismo.

Habrían de pasar cuarenta años para aceptar mi condición y comprender que, con el doble de esfuerzo y la mitad de reconocimiento, había logrado lo mismo que a veces consiguen algunos hombres. Hoy no me cambiaría por ninguno, pero en mi juventud las injusticias cotidianas me amargaban la existencia.

When I was a girl in my grandfather's house, the men in the family had money, cars, and freedom to come and go anytime they wanted, as well as the authority to make all decisions, even the smallest ones, such as what would appear on the dinner menu. My mother had none of that; she lived off her father's and older brother's charity. She also had to protect her reputation. How much of that did I perceive? Enough to suffer for it.

how much more dangerous the world was for women, how we should cross the street if a man's coming toward us and there's nobody else around and avoid them completely if they're in a group, watch our backs, look to both sides, turn invisible.