Quotes About Gender

You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches

Hox is a racing word: it means to hamstring a horse not so brutally that she can't walk but cleverly so that she can't run. Society hoxes women and pretends that God, Nature or the genepool designed them lame.

When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don't mix.

I wish to know, said Claire. God help us, muttered Byron. I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind? Women are weak, said Byron. Or perhaps men need to believe it is so, I said.

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.

Biology is destiny if you work for the patriarchy.

Could so many straightforward ordinary lives suddenly become men to kill and women to rape?

A man needs understanding because he is existentially alone. He stares into the darkness. That was the difference between men and women, Leo thought. Men need groups and gangs and sport and clubs and institutions and women because men know that there is only nothingness and self-doubt. Women were always trying to make a connection, build a relationship. As though one human being could know another.

Toplum kad?nlar? topal b?rak?r ve onlar? sakat yaratm?? olan sanki Tanr?, DoÄŸa ya da genetik faktörlermiÅŸ gibi davran?r.

The devil had attacked me at my weakest point: my inability to realise the limitations of my sex.

Heterosexual choice is allowed to be the background of a writer's life; its wallpaper. So is maleness. And whiteness. Step out of that and you will be called a feminist writer, a lesbian writer, a gay writer, a woman writer. A black writer. You will never be called a heterosexual writer or a male writer or a white writer. Those signifiers are absorbed into the single word 'writer'.

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.

Ce principe établi, il s'ensuit que la femme est faite spécialement pour plaire à l'homme. Si l'homme doit lui plaire à son tour, c'est d'une nécessité moins directe : son mérite est dans sa puissance ; il plaît par cela seul qu'il est fort. Ce n'est pas ici la loi de l'amour, j'en conviens ; mais c'est celle de la nature, antérieure à l'amour même.

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers.

Thing is," she continues, "Seymour can be with women. But he"—she searches for the right words—"he'd rather be with men.

newspaper writer ought to get out of his office and see the way the world works. He could interview me about it. Or Aunt Faye. Because sometimes men don't take care of the women. And that's why we women need our jobs.

Because sometimes men don't take care of the women. And that's why we women need our jobs.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.