Quotes About Gender

These roles not only shame us but they become our refuge of hiding. As we pretend to be real men and women, we can hide the fact that we really don't know who we are. We can mood-alter by playing our role to the hilt. In the mood alteration of being a real man or woman, we can avoid our painful shame.

Crying when feeling angry is a common female feeling racket.

Many fairy tales are symbolic statements about finding our male or female identity. When the developmental process is running smoothly, we eventually outgrow our inner child's literal understanding of these stories and come to grasp their symbolic significance. But

Most gays carry an excessive amount of shame, as there is particularly strong and widespread shaming of boys who don't display the traditional masculine traits and behaviors. If you are a gay man or woman, your wounded inner preschooler needs to hear that it is perfectly okay to be who you are.

Men, embryonically speaking, are imperfect women, as you know.

We've exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.

2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.

Su un tram affollato a Roma all'ora di chiusura una sera d'inverno, qualcuno per sbaglio mi tocca la spalla. Non mi giro a guardare chi è e non saprò mai se è un uomo o una donna, una sgualdrina o un prete, ma quel tocco delicato scatena in me un tale desiderio di tenerezza e di cura che sospiro; mi sento cedere le ginocchia. Non è un sospiro profumato di violette né uno spasimo chopinesco: è qualcosa di rozzo e reale come i peli sulla mia pancia

Boy flirts a lot? He gets props. Girl flirts a lot? She's a slut. Boy cries over a girl? He's in love. Girl cries over a boy? She's dumb.

You make me dumb, but it's not my fault. I'm a girl, words like 'I love you' play with my mind...

Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love.

Mars and Venus? Nope. The only problem between the genders is that we each have the others needs and wants backwards. Men want to be needed, and women need to be wanted. Not the other way around. It's that simple!

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Its kind of an interesting thought when your boyfriend doesnt tell you that you look pretty but your guy friends never forget to.

BOYS are like alcohol, you throw them up when you've had too much. GIRLS are like coffee, you throw them away when they are not HOT ANYMORE...

Let's see Magic Mike for your birthday unless you'd rather objectify men in person.

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though.

Boys use the word 'friendship' to start love, girls use the word 'friendship' to end it... same word, different attitude.

Guys use the word friendship to start a relationship. Girls use the word friendship to end it...