Quotes About Gender

Tara's already been called a lesbian because that's how the Sebastian boys deal with any girl who has an opinion.

Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.

He's gods' blessed. He can do more than one thing at once. Be an idiot and be responsible. He has these multiple skills." "Much like women, but they're not called gods' blessed. They're just called women.

There are always jobs I have to learn because all good Italian girls know how to do them and one day I'll need them to look after my chauvinistic husband.

My theory was that if you had breasts, boys wanted to have sex with you, which wasn't exactly a big compliment, since they wanted to have sex any way. Whereas if you had a beautiful face, like Julia, boys fell in love with you, which seemed to happen against their will. Then the sex that you had would be about love.

I said, "It's not like that." I wanted to convince her. I said "We think alike." Oh, my dear," she said. "A man thinks with his dick.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.

Most guys don't like to be pursued like that. I mean, I suppose it's kinda flattering when a girl likes you so much that she'll go after you, but most guys want to be the ones doing the chasing.

In its easiness of grammatical construction, in its paucity of inflexion, in its almost total disregard of the distinctions of gender excepting those of nature, in the simplicity and precision of its terminations and auxiliary verbs, not less than the majesty, vigour and copiousness of its expression, our mother-tongue seems well adapted by organization to become the language of the world.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim! So our English, I think you'll all agree Is the trickiest language you ever did see.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.

All these assistants are given female names and default identities by tech executives and developers—no accident. "I think that probably reflects what some men think about women—that they're not fully human beings,

As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

White women who suffer from mental illness are depicted as idle, spoiled, or just plain hysterical. Black men are demonized and pathologized. Black women with psychological problems are certainly not seen as geniuses; we are generally not labeled 'hysterical' or 'eccentric' or even 'pathological'. When a black woman suffers from a mental disorder, the overwhelming opinion is that she is weak. And weakness in black women is intolerable.

I have yet to meet a Southern woman with two first names that wasn't a man-eater.

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry

Herodotus of Greece, several centuries before Diodorus, wrote that in Egypt, "Women go in the marketplace, transact affairs and occupy themselves with business, while the husbands stay home and weave.

Love poems, discovered in Egyptian tombs, strongly hint that it was the Egyptian women who did the courting, oftimes wooing the male by plying him with intoxicants to weaken his protestations.

Kakve su da su, žene su mudrije i bolje od muškaraca. To pred njima ne treba re?i, ali su muškarci glupi, sujetni, uobraženi, ne vrijede mnogo, me?u nama re?eno. I ?udo je kako nas žene trpe.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.