Quotes About Gender

It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing? Bev

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

You white women have always managed to have your cake and eat it, too.

She'd found that most boys, even some not very bright men, understimated women.

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don't have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I'll be a bloke, they don't have to make sense either.

Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple.

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture.

Porque si hemos sido valorizadas únicamente dentro de una función de reproducción, aceptar el goce fuera de la función reproductiva significa inventar una sexualidad femenina diferente

Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

The next step was the use of huts and skins and fire, And women became the property of one man. So the chaste pleasures of a private Venus Were first invented and couples had their own children. It was then that the human race began to soften.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

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