Quotes About Gender

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

They say boys wreck your house and girls wreck your head, and it's the truth.

It was men like that, she decided, that made her eternally grateful to be a woman! She didn't know why Harlan was so obsessed with discovering primitive man. All he had to do was look about him: In Sophie's estimation, mankind had not progressed very far!

periods are the only thing i can think of where its a problem if you don't bleed

When a man and woman have sexual relations, who gets the most out of the deal? The man, or the woman? Since we live in a society full of tricks, the man thinks he gets more out of the encounter. But what do men really get out of it? The reality is that women have the potential to get more out of it than the man, especially if the man's seeds have accumulated a certain amount of value.

Throughout history, men have primarily been valued for their game, and women have primarily been valued for their physical attributes.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

A marriage could not be happy if the husband was prettier than the wife, that much she knew.

Had you been born in a society that treated women as the equals of men, it would never occur to you that Miss Carter shouldn't lead a dig or that men would balk at her orders." "We have free will, but we are not free from original sin," Mr. Taylor said.

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…

Sudhamoy consoled himself with the thought that it was not about Hindus and Muslims but about the strong torturing the weak whenever possible. Women are weak and so strong men torment them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

You don't know how demoralizing it is to be a man with nothing to offer a woman.

But a man who is a father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

I hate using that word, career. It always feels like the word bitch is hiding out between the letters.

The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby's pajamas for her pregnant sister. "Men," the customer said. "Who can understand the way their minds work?" Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn't laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.

But a man who is father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe, and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

I was at the BP station, filling up my daddy's Chrysler with gas, when I finally heard what I think was my mama's voice in my ear. Any fool can up and go. Whenever she started saying what "any fool" could do, she followed up with how a "real man" would handle the problem

If you're a grown women and have more than ten dollars in the bank, nobody understands why you can't have a baby.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

females were the source of the vital principle that gave the offspring life, while males provided the basic form. Because of this division, neither sex could reproduce by itself.

gender and power relations have been central to theoretical frameworks that attempt to understand prostitution

Barry (1995) defines prostitution as sexual exploitation: 'when the human being is reduced to a body, objectified to sexually service another, whether or not there is consent, violation of the human being has taken place'.