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Quotes About Gender

With hindsight, of course, I can see how brilliantly institutionalized the sexism was at Newsweek. For every man, an inferior woman. For every male writer, a female drone. For every flamboyant inventor of a meaningless-but-unknown detail, a young drudge who could be counted on to fill it in.
~ Nora Ephron
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
~ Nora Roberts
It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear.
~ Nora Roberts
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.
~ Nora Roberts
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don't have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.
~ Nora Roberts
When we destroy it. She spoke clearly now, steadily now. If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it.
~ Nora Roberts
Is there anything more annoying than machismo?
~ Nora Roberts
Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?' 'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.
~ Nora Roberts
There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.
~ Nora Roberts
A woman,' Smithy said with a sigh when they drove away. 'It's always over a woman.' 'Hey, don't blame my breed for the stupidity of yours.
~ Nora Roberts
Men are pigs.
~ Nora Roberts
If I wasn't a man,I'd punch that jealous cat in the nose. His eyes lit up. I'll get Susie to do it.
~ Nora Roberts
There would be no children in the world if men had to bring them into it.
~ Nora Roberts
Can you cook? No. Drawing her brows together, she grabbed both of his ears and drew his head up. Not at all? That's remarkably chauvinistic for a man whose policies primarily reflect the feminist viewpoint. Alan lifted a brow. I don't expect you to be able to cook either. Amusement shot into his eyes. Can you? Shelby struggled with a grin. Barely. I find that odd for someone with your appetite. I eat out a lot.
~ Nora Roberts
Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/
~ Nora Roberts
Women change things. She glanced up at him. Only women? People then. But women? They alter universe just by being women. For better or worse? Depends on the woman, doesn't it? She smiled. And the prize, or the man, she's set her sights on.
~ Nora Roberts
Fine, a Lithuanian couple gets lost because, like men across the globe, he values his penis—among other things—as a compass. So he's incapable of asking for directions and thereby disparaging the power of his penis.
~ Nora Roberts
Why is it men are called strong or tough, and women stubborn?
~ Nora Roberts
It's an unfortunate by-product of a patriarchal society that women are deemed sluttish or cheap for engaging in sex for pleasure while men are considered vital. Virginity shouldn't be a prize to be won, or withheld. The hymen has no rewarding properties, grants no powers. Women should—no, must—be allowed to pursue their own sexual gratification, whether or not procreation is the goal or the relationship a monogamous one, just as a man is free to do so.
~ Nora Roberts
The penis is here to stay, so those of us without them must learn to appreciate, exploit, ignore, and/or utilize them, depending on our own needs and goals.
~ Nora Roberts
If a man had to wear heeks they'd be outlawed across the land. Festive in death: chapter 15
~ Nora Roberts
Não acredito que o Pitte ou a Rowena queiram fazer-nos mal. Além disso, sei tomar conta de mim. - Porque será que as mulheres dizem sempre isso depois de se meterem numa grande alhada? - Porque os homens vêm sempre atrás delas a tornar as coisas piores.
~ Nora Roberts
The grouper isn't one of your prettier fish, but it's versatile. They're all born female and produce eggs before they change sex and become functioning males.
~ Nora Roberts
Women curl up with books, guys stretch out
~ Nora Roberts