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Quotes About Gender

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times
~ Unknown
Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
~ Unknown
God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him
~ Unknown
After years of marriage, I have learned one thing: Trust a woman's intuition before a man's undeniable logic.
~ Unknown
Make full use of the fact that up to a certain point, fatigue makes women talk more and men talk less. Much secret resentment, even between lovers, can be raised from this.
~ Unknown
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think.
~ Unknown
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always though Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always thought Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Baiser permet aux hommes de se protéger contre leur désir d'être des femmes.
~ Valerie Solanas
Bir erkeÄŸe hayvan demek ona iltifat etmektir; o bir makine, yürüyen bir vibratördür.
~ Valerie Solanas
Erkekleri bertaraf edin, kad?nlar ÅŸekle girecektir. Kad?nlar düzeltilebilir; erkeklerse düzeltilemez, ancak davran??lar? düzeltilebilir. SCUM k?çlar?ndan dürtünce hale yola girerler.
~ Valerie Solanas
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
~ Valerie Solanas
The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.
~ Valerie Solanas
To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.
~ Valerie Solanas
On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.
~ Valerie Solanas
Every man, deep down, knows he'a a piece of shit.
~ Valerie Solanas
RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture. BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.
~ Valerie Solanas
Kendisindeki farkl?l?k kadar, baÅŸka erkeklerdeki farkl?l?k da onu tehdit eder; bunun anlam? onlar?n ibne olduklar?d?r ve ne pahas?na olursa olsun onlardan uzak durmas? gerekir o yüzden bütün erkeklerin benzeÅŸtiÄŸinden emin olmak ister
~ Valerie Solanas
Women are thus being allowed to enter the professions at precisely the time when these professions are being devalued and high-flying men are going elsewhere
~ Unknown
CHAPTER TWO Science, Nature, and Gender The recovery of the feminine principle is an intellectual and political challenge to maldevelopment as a patriarchal project of domination and destruction, of violence and subjugation, of dispossession and the dispensability of both women and nature.
~ Vandana Shiva
This book focuses on science and development as patriarchal projects not as a denial of other sources of patriarchy, such as religion, but because they are thought to be class, culture, and gender neutral.
~ Vandana Shiva
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.
~ Vanna Bonta