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Quotes About Gender

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..
~ Charles Bukowski
Toda mujer es una maquina de follar.
~ Charles Bukowski
Trying to build up the colonial population, the monarchy ordered that female African slaves be awarded to every new male European arrival, along with exhortations to breed.
~ Charles C. Mann
In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. The meat provided by male hunters is a kind of luxury, a special treat for a binge and celebration, the Pleistocene equivalent of a giant box of Toblerone.
~ Charles C. Mann
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.
~ Charles Darwin
more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex. It is a fact of some importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in the males of our domestic breeds are often transmitted, either exclusively or in a much greater degree, to the males alone. A much more important rule, which I think may be trusted, is that, at whatever period of life a peculiarity
~ Charles Darwin
the power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other males in battle. LAWS
~ Charles Darwin
educated beyond the point considered wise for females
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
because you know all the statistics, nearly 45 per cent of gamers are women, even though if you look at the biz from outside it seems to be focussed on an attention-deficient twelve-year-old male with a breast fixation and a sugar high.
~ Charles Stross
and she has yet to see any eunuchs or freemartins at all
~ Charles Stross
Compliance with the mile-high stack of social expectations you grow up with as a girl turns out to be mandatory if you want to get ahead in business. Be blonde, be skinny, and don't forget to smile, bitch.
~ Charles Stross
Why do women have this perverse talent for sneaking up on a man and whamming him over the head with some inconsequential chore when he has his mind on weightier issues? Because men have this perverse talent for weaseling out of the chores on the specious grounds that doing a little honest work around the place is less important than playing Cops & Robbers with Fred Ottermole.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
She had Nick Lachey's body, a deep voice, very small boobies, and a crew cut. It would have come as no surprise if she had walked into the backyard to compete in a rock-hurling competition after dinner.
~ Chelsea Handler
Something is definitely wrong with my feelings about marriage and procreation. I worry that not only am I missing the chromosome that allows me to dance respectably, but that I am also lacking a conventional vagina.
~ Chelsea Handler
A.J. was one of the guys. One of the guys with breasts, a shapely butt, and sparkling green eyes.
~ Cherry Adair
The woven belt once worn around the waist by both men and women symbolized the participation of individuals in society, their place in the community, and the agreement to be, quite literally, bound by its rules. When the reverse was practised, taking off one's belt signified a readiness to enter the realm of the spirits. For women, the power could be amplified by unbraiding their hair, as mentioned above.
~ Cherry Gilchrist
The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family." "That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
~ Chinua Achebe
How can a man who has killed five men in a battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their family number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.
~ Chinua Achebe
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
~ Chinua Achebe
It is not bravery when a man fights with a woman.
~ Chinua Achebe
MEN SELDOM rub elbows with girls who wear dildoes
~ Chocolate Waters
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. —Margaret Atwood
~ Chris Bohjalian
She was sent to the scaffold because she had a sharper tongue and a shrewder mind than her accusers. It is always the case when men hang women.
~ Chris Bohjalian
Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?
~ Chris Bohjalian