Quotes About Gender

El martirio de la humanidad es doble: para el macho, la más dura fatiga: el pensar; para la hembra, la más espantosa tortura: el parir.

Sé muy bien que la mujer es por su esencia y necesidad, una parásita, una aprovechadora, una ladrona.

Ve o hastal?k,ey Hamlet,o korkunç hastal?k belki düÅŸünce, belki içe bak?? deÄŸil midir?Yoksa sen,yapmak yerine,yapmak istemediklerini ve yapmak zorunda olduklar?n? düÅŸünen o adamlar familyas?n?n hüzünlü kahraman? deÄŸil misin? Yoksa sen kelimeleri, ki onlar diÅŸidir,eylemlere,ki onlar erkektir,tercih eden o yorgun ve kad?ns? ruhlardan deÄŸil misin?

Femeile de la r?zboi încoace deveniser? prea evidente, din generaÅ£ie în generaÅ£ie. Descoperindu-le pulpele, rochia le scurta misterul, dup? cum ÅŸi p?rul care le descoperea ÅŸi masculiniza ceafa. Nudismul desfiinÅ£a acest mister împuÅ£inat de dimensiunile hainelor. Odinioar? erau un foÅŸnet pentru suflet, acuma deveniser? un marÅŸ.

El argumento se formula más o menos así: si nuestras diferencias indican diferencias de género, y por tanto las tratamos de modo disyuntivo (igual-distinto), entonces estamos en un aprieto; pero si los conceptos se entienden como una cuestión de más-o-menos, lo que indica solo diferencias de grado, entonces nuestros problemas se pueden resolver mediante la medida y el verdadero inconveniente será el cómo medir.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...} I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

Even the dictionary defines adventurer as "a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures," but adventuress is "a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.