Quotes About Gender

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.

If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.

Beverly?" she said. "Lady Evelyn." "Are you a confirmed misogynist or am I special?" His smile was sublime. "My appreciation of the fairer sex is universal, madame.

I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence. (Kit)

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

James Connolly, 1916: 'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.

You've been trying to pretend to be a boy; you've sensed, rightly or wrongly, that your father would have preferred to have a boy, but there is nothing superior about being a boy. You be yourself, a beautiful woman with brains and knowledge, and be glad to be yourself. Then you will have a happy life.

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.

Some day, I must ask him what it's like to be married to someone who, eyes narrowed in thought, peers at him over the tops of sociology articles with titles like "Who Gets the Best Deal from Marriage: Women or Men?" We've had our disagreements, of course. When, for example, are a few dirty cups a symbol of the exertion of male privilege, and when are they merely unwashed dishes?

Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable and changeable. And, if we only believe this, it will continue to unravel.

contrary to the view that the brains of men and women are strikingly different, none of these differences were particularly substantial. Even for the very largest, the overlap between the sexes meant that about one in five women were more "male-like" than the average male.

boys do not pursue mathematical activities at a higher rate than girls do because they are better at mathematics. They do so, at least partially, because they think they are better.

Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.

In other words, both the descriptive ('women are gentle') and the prescriptive ('women should be gentle') elements of gender stereotypes create a problem for ambitious women. Without any intention of bias, once we have categorised someone as male or female, activated gender stereotypes can then colour our perception. When the qualifications for the job include stereotypically male qualities, this

No doubt the female self and the male self can be as useful as any other social identity in the right circumstances. But flexible, context-sensitive, and useful is not the same as "hardwired".

Contrary to what you might expect, people from more gender-egalitarian countries are often less egalitarian when it comes to the gender stereotypes they typically endorse.

A pesar de las diferencias reales que existen entre ellos, los trabajadores de una fábrica se parecen a las secretarias de una oficina, a los campesinos de una finca, a los esclavos de una plantación —incluso a las mujeres en un matrimonio— en que todos ellos viven y trabajan en condiciones de poder desigual.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Nessuno è di fronte alle donne più arrogante, aggressivo e sdegnoso dell'uomo malsicuro della propria virilità

A Woman is a foreign land,Of which, though there he settle young,A man will ne'er quite understandThe customs, politics, and tongue.

In my limited experience, women dreaded male statements that ended with "then you've got another think coming." It usually meant there was a lot more coming, but in this case there wasn't.