Quotes About Gender

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.

Part of our shared tragedy - we recognized it at once - was that we never separated from our mothers, which meant we liked girls more than the world like them, which is to say more than they liked each other, let alone themselves.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Hazel had received a baby doll that, if you filled it with water, you could squeeze and make it pee, even though she'd wanted a sword like her brother's.

Oh for goodness sake. Why do boys always have to talk about their feelings all the time? It's so gross. - Tamara

It turns out that men have more authority, even when they're not real.

In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

A husband who submits to his wifes yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A womans influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Aucun homme n'a pu découvrir le moyen de donner un conseil d'ami à aucune femme, pas même à la sienne.

Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron.

The social state has freaks which Nature does not allow herself; it is nature plus society. The description of social species would thus be at least double that of animal species, merely in view of the two sexes. Then, among animals the drama is limited; there is scarcely any confusion; they turn and rend each other — that is all. Men, too, rend each other; but their greater or less intelligence makes the struggle far more complicated.

under the terrible axiom that "men should have strength of character," — a masculine phrase that has caused many a woman's misery.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

That's the kind of luxury that men have. They can be awful and beloved. Women don't get that kind of leeway.

Why do women have to suffer this way? Why don't we have the freedom men have?

A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.

The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.

Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships. Masha had seen women pinch at the flesh of their stomachs with such brutal self-loathing they left bruises. Meanwhile their husbands fondly patted their own much larger stomachs with rueful pride.