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Quotes About Gender

The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
~ John Scalzi
You came to see me about something?" "Yes, ma'am. A lawyer is here." "Toss him out a window." "Her, actually, I think." "So toss her out, then. Equally defenestratable.
~ John Scalzi
Obin: "it," not "he" or "she." Because they're hermaphrodites. That means male and female sex organs. Go ahead and have your giggle. I'll wait. Okay, done? Good.)
~ John Scalzi
Hul loitered in the general cabin, and six fellow members of the Fflict species as the rescue team. The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
~ John Scalzi
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies.
~ John Steinbeck
He held the apple box against his chest. And then he leaned over and set the box in the stream and steadied it with his hand. He said fiercely, Go down an' tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk. Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an' lay in the street. Maybe they'll know then.
~ John Steinbeck
Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.
~ John Steinbeck
The women watched the men, watched to see whether the break had come at last. The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right—the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
~ John Steinbeck
It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.
~ John Steinbeck
Woman can change better'n man, Ma said soothingly. Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.
~ John Steinbeck
Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money—unless you were married to it.
~ John Steinbeck
Woman can change better'n a man, Ma said soothingly. Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.
~ John Steinbeck
Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money- unless you were married to it. Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. His neighbors did not find his action hasty. It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime. p.19
~ John Steinbeck
Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.
~ John Steinbeck
This was a man, she thought, a man of complete manness. This was the kind of a man that a pure woman would want to have because he wouldn't even want to be part woman. He would be content with his own sex. He wouldn't ever try to understand women and that would be a relief. He would just take what he wanted from them.
~ John Steinbeck
a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
The preacher said, "She looks tar'd.'' "Women's always tar'd,'' said Tom. "That's just the way women is, 'cept at meetin' once an' again.
~ John Steinbeck
Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money—unless you were married to it. Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. His neighbors did not find his action hasty. It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.
~ John Steinbeck
My wife is a wonderful woman," he said in a kind of peroration. "Most wonderful woman. Ought to of been a man. If she was a man I wouldn't of married her." He laughed a long time over that and repeated it three or four times and resolved to remember it so he could tell it to a lot of other people.
~ John Steinbeck
Good," he said. "A group. Mary and you and the two kids. Subject: men—their weakness and stupidity and how to use them.
~ John Steinbeck
w naszych czasach broda jest jedynÄ… rzeczÄ…, której kobieta nie mo?e zrobi? lepiej od m??czyzny, jeÅ›li zaÅ› mo?e, to sukces ma zapewniony tylko w cyrku.
~ John Steinbeck
finally, in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
tone. "All right," she said, "but how do I go about being a boy?
~ John Steinbeck