Quotes About Gender

They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.

My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so I'll work for free. No charge. A free law clerk for three weeks. I'll do all the research, typing, answering the phone. I'll even carry your briefcase and make the coffee. I was afraid you'd want to be a a law partner. No I'm a woman, and I'm in the South. I know my place.

Most of his pals did not understand how it was possible to have a friend who was a girl but not actually a girlfriend. Theo had grown weary of trying to explain this. It was complicated.

There had been so many. He had hired young ones because they were more plentiful and worked cheaper. The better of those got married and pregnant and wanted six months off. The bad ones flirted, wore tight miniskirts, and made suggestive comments. He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend.

No woman of spirit," he said, "would make choice of such a man that was more like a woman than a man

He went to pieces when told that his heir was not a boy.

Many millennials...feel "unsafe" if someone they disagree with speaks at an event they don't have to attend on their campus....they're trying to figure out what gender they are and which bathroom they should be using. It's not an improvement....Snowflakes may melt when the going gets tough, but kids who are taught good, conservative values will stand tall even when it's not easy.

After all, there's no mansplaining like white mansplaining 'cause white mansplaining don't stop.

Whatever you may have thought about Hillary Clinton, my daughter watched as a highly experienced and qualified woman lost a job to a neophyte dilettante cartoon character of a white man who openly bragged of molesting women. My daughter isn't dumb. She got the message.

Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently a different matter. But it is rape nonetheless, and practiced on a scale that dwarfs the Negro's defaults. The

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.

In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.

If women are Republicans, they've been brainwashed—the men have brainwashed them," Nana said.

I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.

That poor girl wasn't a girl," Señor Eduardo said; he'd glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. "That poor girl was Flor

In this dirty-minded world," Jenny thinks, "you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.

Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis!