Quotes About Gender

Skip stared at the ranks of the players. Men who raced from the benches to collide with one another in joyful bloodshed. Who let themselves be hammered and rounded into cops and warriors and lived in a world completely inaccessible to women and children.

But i must have a husband, darling. All women must have a husband.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices, but he nodded politely enough.

I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence.

You must," I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

I've yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It's men think there must be ill-wishes and magic in women

Your husband should tan ye, woman," said an austere voice from the blackness under a tree. "St. Paul says 'Let a woman be silent, and—' " "You can mind your own bloody business," I snarled, sweat dripping behind my ears, "and so can St. Paul.

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender.

that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point

I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn

Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices

Åžimdiye kadar 18.yüzy?l leydilerinin bay?lmas?n?n korselerinin s?k? olduÄŸundan dolay? düÅŸündüÄŸümü fark ettim ama ÅŸimdi nedenini daha iyi görüyordum,bay?lma sebepleri 18.yüzy?l erkeklerinin ahmakl???ndan kaynaklan?yordu.

Women, as he had explained to me at the paddock, have no natural appreciation for horses, and are therefore difficult to talk to.

I concealed the burned spot in a fold of skirt, thinking how odd it was that everyone regarded women as inherently harmless. Had I been so inclined, I could easily have burgled houses and murdered hapless families from one end of the Ridge to the other.

I don't know why your husband does not beat you regularly," he remarked, shaking his head. "Or at least keep you locked up safely at home. Has he the slightest idea Ã¢â'¬Â¦?" "Sir Richard is a most accomplished diplomat," she replied with complacence. "He has a great facility for not knowing things that it is expedient not to know.

Christ," he said in an undertone, bending down so I could hear him. "And she's been a woman less than a full day, too! Have ye been givin' her lessons, Sassenach, or are women just born wi' it?" "Natural talent, I expect

Echada en el suelo, con los paneles tallados del techo parpadeando tenuemente sobre mí, me encontré pensando que, hasta entonces, siempre había creído que la tendencia a desmayarse de las mujeres del siglo XVIII se debía a los corsés apretados. Pero no, se debía a la estupidez de los hombres de aquel siglo.

There were things that could be planned for, but none of them involved women.