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Quotes About Gender

Men." Morena cupped her chin in her hand. "So often a pain in the arse. Too often so bloody sure they know the best of things, so we have to take the time and trouble to show them they don't.
~ Nora Roberts
Women make a man want to shoot himself in the head and be done with it.
~ Nora Roberts
Redhead, built in a way made you sure God's a man." "It didn't work out between you?" "For a while it did. She wasn't shy about using what she had. She wasn't shy about anything," Doyle added with a grin.
~ Nora Roberts
It is possible the world is divided into three genders - there are men, there are women and then there are women who choose to have nothing to do with children. How about men without children, he answered quickly, aren't they also different from fathers? She shook her head firmly, daring him to contradict her: no, all men are the same.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?
~ Christos Tsiolkas
When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?
~ Chuck Klosterman
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The single-biggest proof that the Dixie Chicks are Van Halen is their audience; they are singing to the same teenage boys, except those boys are now teenage girls.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I attempted to make a more academic argument about how the Limp Bizkit song "Nookie" was misogynist for suggesting that the protagonist's ex-girlfriend should inject a cookie into her vagina (or maybe that she should somehow fold her vagina into her rectum — the specific lyrics have never been clear).
~ Chuck Klosterman
No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth
~ Chuck Palahniuk
they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's just such a big commitment, Brandy says, being a girl, you know. Forever. Taking the hormones. For the rest of her life. The pills, the patches, the injections, for the rest of her life. And what if there was someone, just one person who would love her, who could make her life happy, just the way she was, without the hormones and make-up and the clothes and shoes and surgery? She has to at least look around the world a little.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Picture-perfect, state-of-the-art vaginas lengthened using sections of colon, self-cleaning and lubricated with its own mucosa. Sensate clitorises made by cropping and rerouting bits of the glans penis. The Cadillac of vaginoplasty. Some of these Cadillacs turn out so succesful that the flood of colon mucosa means wearing a maxipad every day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk