Quotes About Gender

This is the problem, when women start talking among themselves, they come up with conclusions that defy all reason, and let's not pretend that, deep down, it doesn't stem from a profound hostility toward the masculine libido.

Le féminisme est une aventure collective, pour les femmes, pour les hommes, et pour les autres. Un révolution, bien en marche. Une vision du monde, un choix. Il ne s'agit pas d'opposer les petits avantages des femmes aux petits acquis des hommes mais bien de tout foutre en l'air.

Rape doesn't disturb the peace, it's already part and parcel of the city.

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

Por qué nadie ha inventado el equivalente a Ikea para cuidar a los niños, el equivalente de Macintosh para hacer las tareas domésticas? La organización de la colectividad sigue siendo una prerrogativa masculina.

el día que los hombres tengan miedo de que les laceren la polla a golpe de cúter cuando acosen a una chica, seguro que de repente sabrán controlar mejor sus pasiones –masculinas- y comprender lo que quiere decir –no-.

When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women?—weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Notwithstanding all the laws emancipating woman, she continues to be a domestic slave, because petty housework crushes, strangles, stultifies and degrades her, chains her to the kitchen and the nursery, and she wastes her labour on barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve?racking, stultifying and crushing drudgery.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

women lose control when they're afraid and that men lose control when they're in love.

Women," he snorted. "Can't live with 'em, can't return 'em for a full refund.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The Punjab census for 2001 states that the ratio of women to men in the population is now 874 per thousand. In 1991 it was 882. The most widely given reason for this is the abortion of female foetuses. The practice, as in the UK, is unlikely to be confined to Sikhs but certainly includes them.

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

The word sahib, which Sikhs use when they speak of the scripture, may become contentious in future. It was used respectfully in addressing, in particular, white men in the days of the Raj. The wife was known as the mem sahib, which indicated that her status derived from her husband. Sahib is used to acknowledge the status of the scripture in the same way, but some women writers may dispense with it, claiming that it reinforces the strong but unwarranted male dominance in the Sikh Panth.

Men have always danced bhangra, and women the female Punjabi equivalent, gidda, but not in the same place. Now, at sophisticated wedding receptions, there may be mixed discos with elderly bemused relatives watching and thinking how things have changed since their young days. Not, of course for the better!

In Punjabi culture a girl is paraya dhan – the property of others is the literal meaning of the phrase. Her father, then her husband, is responsible for her. She is never her own person. She is a costly expense to her parents, as a dowry is expected, and after they have spent everything on her the benefit is enjoyed by the family she marries into.

What directors, authors, comic artists, and even game designers want is to hit the audience with a cultural roundhouse. There's no way to do that effectively without pushing political buttons to overstimulate the most delicate nerve endings of personal belief, ideology, patriotism, gender roles, and unexamined hatreds.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.