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Quotes About Gender

Jaime's golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed, and the oil spread out, burning. "You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.
~ George R.R. Martin
For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
~ George R.R. Martin
Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.
~ George R.R. Martin
Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it.
~ George R.R. Martin
A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
~ George R.R. Martin
He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
~ George R.R. Martin
Woman?' She chuckled. 'Is that meant to insult me? I'd return the slap, if I took you for a man.
~ George R.R. Martin
Mujer, rebuznas como un asno y hablas con su misma inteligencia. —¿Mujer? —Dejó escapar una risita—. ¿Acaso tratáis de insultarme?
~ George R.R. Martin
Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took your for a man.
~ George R.R. Martin
The girl that they once cheered as the Realm's Delight had grown into a grasping and vindictive woman, men said, a queen as cruel as any king before her. One wit named Rhaenyra "King Maegor with teats," and for a hundred years thereafter "Maegor's Teats" was a common curse amongst Kingslanders.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
~ George R.R. Martin
Los hombres tienen cicatrices, las mujeres, secretos. Cersei Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education…. While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence.
~ George Sand
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
~ George Santayana
Men are actually the weaker sex.
~ George Weinberg
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
~ George William Curtis
A slap on the chick
~ George Young
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
~ Georgette Heyer
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
~ Georgette Heyer
There's something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.
~ Georgia Bockoven
Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
~ Gerald Morris
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
~ Geraldine Brooks
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Men make laws; women make manners.
~ De Segur