Quotes About Gender

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Every morning you slunk out of our house after breakfast, leaving behind the books and the smell of coffee....and like a spy going deep undercover into enemy territory, you entered a world that was a terrible inversion of everything I had taught you to value: a world shaped by toughness, boastful ignorance, firm gender stereotypes, underachievement, and the threat of violence.

Husbands, in general, tend to complain a lot

El libertinaje femenino paga costos mientras el masculino cobra méritos.

Más tarde habría de definir la existencia de las mujeres en los hombres como en elpatio de atrás de sus mentes

Porque has de saber, Ana, que la intimidad para los hombres es la cama misma, no como para nosotras que es después de la cama, por lo tanto, mucho más larga

So, I turned to angels, and pondered at length their androgyny.

Que Neruda me perdone, pero a veces sucede que me canso de ser mujer.

Jak mÄ› dojímá ženský údÄ›l. Jakým smutkem mÄ› napl?uje. Pro? jen polovina lidstva nese na bedrech tak ohromnou tíhu, zatímco ta druhá odpo?ívá? Ne, nejsem blázen, Ã…â"¢íká si NataÅ¡a. Vím, co Ã…â"¢íkám. Vím, pro? to Ã…â"¢íkám.

Parece que los hombres viven las relaciones y son las mujeres las que las piensan

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman.

I gazed out the window and wished for the thousandth time that rape were punishable by penis removal… with a rusty knife.

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman. Surprisingly,

Twice as many women were murdered by current or former male partners between 2001 and 2012 as there were troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An ax killing in itself is rare—but an ax killing by a woman is rarer than a Republican at an NPR fund-raiser.

Ever think of becoming a cop?" "I did, but at the time there wasn't much opportunity for women. Lady cops were confined to typing, taking shorthand, and the juvenile division." "And I don't suppose you have any womanly skills like typing or taking shorthand?" I smiled. "No, but I'm a mean shot with a .38 and I bake terrific bread.

Ha comprendido que la mujer, que una sola mujer es más fuerte que todos los hombres juntos, y de ahí que los hombres necesiten apretarse entre ellos como niños débiles y asustadizos, necesiten fanfarronear y bravuconear y hablen del amor como de una matufia urdida por ellos para hacer caer a las mujeres en la celada del sexo. No hay que creerles, no hay que preocuparse. Llegado el caso, una mujer puede con una sola mirada desbaratar toda esa falsa tramoya de los hombres.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people's houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937)

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.