Quotes About Gender

Leia was looking up at Poe, smiling ever so slightly. Flyboys. You're all the same. Some of us are flygirls, Poe said.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

Il y avait des femmes, elles étaient là, je les connaissais, leurs familles les poussaient dans des institutions, elles on reçu des chocs électriques. Dans les années 50 si tu étais un homme tu pouvais être un rebelle, mais si tu étais une femme ta famille te bloquait. Il y eut certaines exceptions, je les connaissais, un jour quelqu'un écrira sur elles.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into "let's all be the same." Male and female biological differences are discounted, because "male" and "female" are considered "outdated social constructs," and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality).

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

Tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu sais allumer un feu de cheminée? s'amusa Billie. — Bien sûr que si ! répondis-je vexé. — Très bien, vas-y, homme, je te regarde avec mes yeux admiratifs de femme soumise.

Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

Para una mujer resultaba tan sencillo lastimar a un hombre: bastaba pisotear sus sueños.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Ellos acostumbran a embadurnarnos de trago por todas partes. Les encanta beber trago de nuestras vaginas.

I've decided that all women are basically miserable. The single ones are miserable because they haven't found a husband, and the married ones are miserable because they have found a husband.

Gender thus provides our second example of how the mother tongue influences thought.

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

Some languages, for example, have a gender distinction that is based only on "animacy," the distinction between animate beings (people and animals of both sexes) and inanimate things.

envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?

Another area where languages often display erratic behaviour is what linguists call 'gender',

Will there ever be a time when it is not a curse to be born a woman? When we can do no more, than stand by and be extremely brave and watch them die?

Women have usually been better at this than men, haven't they? Pursuing these subtleties?" "Women have no choice but to be this way if we want any kind of influence, or simply a little control of our own lives.

There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.