Quotes About Gender

Between men and women, as Jenny Fields once said, only death is shared equally.

If women are Republicans, they've been brainwashed—the men have brainwashed them," Nana said. The nurses at River Bend reported that my grandmother was always saying this. There were residents at River Bend who refused to sit with Nana in the dining hall; probably they were Republicans.

In this dirty-minded world, she thought, 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.

Between men and women," as Jenny Fields once said, "only death is shared equally.

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

with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise

At eleven or twelve, girls think they look awful. They have ceased being children, at least in their estimation, but they have not yet developed into the young women they will become. At that age, there are great differences among them: some have begun to look and move like young women, others have boys' bodies and move as if they were shy young men.

Saturday you might see your dad in a T-shirt, your brother might be asked if he'd like to throw a ball around, and from a corner of the lawn you might sit and watch, wild with the wrongness of being a girl, wild with stoppered grace.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.