Quotes About Gender

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.

People assume that men make all the rules, but sometimes mothers are the ones who command girls to be quiet while they arrange for us to be sold like oxen or mules.

One does not dislike the half of everything. You bore me, you young people, when you talk about one sex or the other, as if they were separate things. There is only one human entity and that is a man and a woman. The man is the silhouette, the woman is the detail. The one often spoils or makes the other. But apart they are so much material. Don't be a fool.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

Todo viaje hombre adentro tiene su contrapartida, es decir, el viaje mujer afuera.

I was a jealous little she-reader; I resented pouring myself into the lives of hero-boys.

Sarah Pomeroy, in her careful study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

No man hath it in his power to over-rule the deceitfulness of a woman.

Una mujer capaz de placer puede convertirse en rebelde, puede traicionar a su dueño y señor, puede buscar lejos del lecho connyugal este placer, puede burlar el dominio del varón y darle una descendencia ilegítima para escarnio y estafa de la sacrosanta ley de la herencia.

No hay rebelión de la mujer sin crisis de poder.

I call death onto those who don't know a child when they see a child. Men who think they made the world out of clay and turned it into their safe place, men who think a woman wouldn't flip the universe over and flatten them beneath it. I have enough bullets for all of them.

My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

I've been invisible for a long time, and he's been walking the world with all the privilege of being a man.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

The feminist project is basically an anarchist movement which does not want to replace one (male) power elite by another (female) power elite, but which wants to build up a non-hierarchical, non-centralised society where no elite lives of exploitation and dominance over others.

Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends on the principle mode of production in these epochs.