Quotes About Gender

In some parts of North-east England, a man would rather kill himself overtaking on a blind bend at seventy miles an hour than drive a hundred yards behind a woman.

Well-meaning friends suggest that I should drop the word "feminist," and perhaps the entire concept, because feminism is so "old hat." Young women today have lost interest in feminism because they believe it's antisex and that all feminists are man haters. Let me tell you something, girlfriends. That's exactly what the powers-that-be want us to think and do.

A 2013 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that two-thirds of children who say they believe they were born the wrong gender change their minds and come to accept their biological sex. Another study, by clinical psychologist Devita Singh, found that without adult intervention, 88 percent of kids ultimately evolve out of gender confusion

Mother was doing that dragon thing of assuming her special perfect egg had a female dragonet inside. WRONG.)

For a man, the baby completes the marriage. For a woman the baby completes herself.

It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living men, speak when they are alone together. 'She has forgotten the distinction between what can and what cannot be said,' he reflected. 'A few more years of this company, and she would not scruple to fart.

Men pursue younger women for sport all the time—whenever they start feeling a little insecure. But when a woman does it, it's another thing altogether.

All women bring with them to work their affinity for relationships. Females tend to see the workplace as a network of connections where friendships are established as people cooperate to produce work.

Women] tend to see the workplace as a network of connections where friendships are established as people cooperate to produce work. Nothing is wrong with that viewpoint until you realize that, by and large, the work world was created by men—males who tend to see the workplace as a field for competition

The Nice Girl Culture teaches [women] not to interrupt other people and to wait to speak until called upon. Unfortunately, these are little-girl behaviors that do not translate into the modern world of work. Women tend to be quieter in meetings where men are present. When they let the men do most of the talking, the men will naturally get most of the credit.

Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.

With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!

Being a man is bad enough; being manly is appalling.

The one big difference between John and me, besides the fact that he's a boy and I'm a girl, is I have compassion.

That the female of the species was as cruel as, and more implacable than, the male, O had never doubted for a minute.

Haces mal en asombrarte. Considera mejor tu amor. Se horrorizaría si comprendiera durante un solo instante que soy mujer y que estoy viva. Y no es olvidando las fuentes ardientes de la sangre como vas a cegarlas

She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

Justkui nõudepesemine või rinnahoidja kandmine või see, et keegi mulle uksi avab ja sulgeb – justukui alandaks see mind kui naist. Tegelikult ma kaifin, kui mees mulle ukse lahti teeb, etiketi järgi tähendab see:"Tal on vaja, et ma teda aitan, sest ta on nõrk." Kuid minu jaoks:"Mind koheldakse kui jumalannat, ma olen kuninganna.

Quand nous nous engageons dans le chemin, nous avons toujours une idee plus ou moins definie de ce que nous voulons trouver. Les femmes en general recherchent l'Autre Partie, les hommes le Pouvoir. Ni les uns ni les autres ne desirent apprendre: ils veulent arriver au but qu'ils se sont fixes.

Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.

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

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.

I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted. "Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same

Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when she was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.