Quotes About Gender

A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn't that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn't fit the mold? Well, regardless, Jerico found the faux pas and overcompensations more humorous than anything else.

You must find us binary people strange and confusing." "I did when I was younger. I never met someone born to a single gender until I was well into my teens. But I've come to accept, and even appreciate, your quirky rigidity.

Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn't that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn't fit the mold?

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class

She made the same money in ten minutes that I had made in a day with some hours thrown in. Monetarily speaking, it seemed sure as shit you were better off having a pussy than a cock.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Hank, I can't stand it! You can't stand what, baby? The situation. What situation, babe? Me working and you laying around. All the neighbors think I am supporting you. Hell, I worked and you laid around. That's different. You're a man, I'm a woman. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?

Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love

every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.

A whore is a woman who takes more than she gives. A man who takes more than he gives is called a businessman.

they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.

Em termos monetários, parecia mais do que certo que era melhor ter uma buceta do que um caralho.

Charles - disse ela. - Vera - disse eu. - o que foi? - perguntou ela. - sou o maior poeta do mundo - disse-lhe eu. - morto ou vivo? - perguntou ela. - morto - disse eu, esticando o braço e agarrando um seio. - adorava espetar-te um bacalhau vivo pelo cu acima, Vera! - porquê? - sei lá. ela puxou para baixo o vestido. eu acabei o copo de uísque. - tu mijas da crica, nao mijas? - acho que sim. - enfim, é o problema das mulheres.

Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?

Si hubiera nacido mujer seguro que hubiera sido una prostituta. Como había nacido hombre, anhelaba constantemente mujeres, cuanto más guarras mejor. Y sin embargo las mujeres, las buenas mujeres, me daban miedo porque a veces querían tu alma, y lo poco que quedaba de la mía, quería conservarlo para mí. Básicamente deseaba prostitutas, porque eran duras, sin esperanzas, y no pedían nada personal. Nada se perdía cuando ellas se iban.