Quotes About Gender

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

Görücü usulü evlilikte zor olan ÅŸey, kad?n?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenmesi deÄŸil, hiç tan?mad??? birini sevmek zorunda olmas?d?r, derler... Ama asl?nda bir k?z?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenebilmesi daha kolay olmal?, çünkü tan?d?kça inan?n erkekleri sevmek daha da zorla??yor.

Por qué nos inquieta un hombre bañado en lágrimas? Una mujer que llora puede considerarse una parte excepcional pero conmovedora y digna de pena, de nuestra vida cotidiana, la acogemos con sinceridad y cariño. Pero ante un hombre que llora nos llena un sentimiento de desesperación. Es como si para él hubiera llegado el fin del mundo o como si él hubiera llegado al límite de lo que podía hacer.

I've accepted the city into which I was born in the same way I've accepted my body and my gender.

Roman sanat?n? siyasi yapan ÅŸey, yazarlar?n siyasi görüÅŸleri ya da üye olduklar? partiler deÄŸil; kültür, s?n?f, cinsiyet vs. olarak kendimize benzemeyen birisini anlamak, ahlaki, kültürel, siyasi yarg?dan önce ÅŸefkat duymak, yani bütün bu özdeÅŸleÅŸme ihtiyac? ve onun gücüdür.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

If you try to look up my skirt, I'll poke needles in your eyes right through your eyelids while you're asleep.' 'I'm looking for help, you give me nightmares, thank you so much.' She was on the top step now, reaching up for a bin marked DRY BEANS. Rigg looked up her skirt, mostly because she told him not to, and saw nothing at all of interest. He could never understand why Nox and other women, too, were always so sure men wanted to see whatever it is they concealed under their clothes.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

If good people weren't so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.

I wonder what it would be like to love and trust a man so much that I'd be willing to abase myself as Kate did. Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection?

There were not enough women among them, but they began to work out social patterns that would maximize reproduction and keep from having too many males without a hope of mating. Within a generation or two, if babies came in the usual proportions, half male and half female, the normal human pattern of monogamy could be restored.

Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

All boys? A few girls. They don't often pass the test to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.