Quotes About Gender

No te parece que una persona con genitales masculinos y femeninos es el símbolo supremo de poder y de belleza?

Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty. I had long resigned myself to category one, and as long as it got me to Harvard, I was happy. Except, it hadn't gotten me to Harvard. Clearly, it was time to switch to category two.

Women, it seemed, were capable not only of significant acts of treason, but of executing them more deftly than men.

Yet it is perhaps worth mentioning that the masculine tenor of God-talk is particularly problematic in English. In Hebrew, Arabic and French, however, grammatical gender gives theological discourse a sort of sexual counterpoint and dialectic, which provides a balance that is often lacking in English. Thus in Arabic al-Lah (the supreme name for God) is grammatically masculine, but the word for the divine and inscrutable essence of God—al-Dhat—is feminine.

It did seem unjust that Jane, who was by far the abler of the two, should sacrifice her career for Mark's.

Surveys show that a large proportion of veiled women hold progressive views on such matters as gender. For some women, who have come from rural areas to the university and are the first members of their family to advance beyond basic literacy, the assumption of Islamic dress provides continuity and makes their rite of passage to modernity less traumatic than it might otherwise have been.

The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

Roses are red, nuts are brown Skirts go up, pants goes down

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to parlay sexual favors, would find a way to bring up matters sweetly, pouring honey all over the problem before showing it to the husband. But she was out of patience.

I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.

Mr. Darwin demonstrated that we- male and female alike- were descended from wild animals. Women, held high in men's esteem and given the task of living up to a higher moral standard, seemed as capable as men of bestial behavior. Jonathan claimed that the women seduced him. It made sense, I suppose. It wasn't as if men evolved from beasts and women evolved from angels. But if women too gave free rein to our base wants, as I did in my dreams, what would happen to our society?

It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.

Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.

Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.

in Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

There's only one thing that scares a Mando man," said Beviin, "and that's a Mando woman. Just make sure you don't forget their napkins.

Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.

A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.

Men can always reinvent themselves," Laura said. "For women, once you're a mother, you're always a mother.

This is where feminism had gotten her: locked in the back of a sticky squad car with the skirt on her tennis dress riding up her thighs.

women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.