Quotes About Gender

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Reckon women don't think like men." "Why on earth don't they learn how?" I rubbed my face. "Ain't meant to, honey." I smiled and kissed his brow. "It occurs to us to ask the same thing. Keeps the world turning, I suspect.

It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.

alliance of the patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be obedient, submissive and quiet.

Those "others" are largely female. For in capitalist society, the organization of social reproduction rests on gender: it relies on gender roles and entrenches gender oppression.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.

Do women dress for men or women? I've always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It's disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn't matter where it comes from.

the psychoanalytic notion that going down on a man is symbolically similar to breastfeeding; that it is a regressive form of sexuality. (..) the notion that a woman who likes to perform fellatio is "really" in search of maternal succor (..). Perhaps a Freudian case might be made for the unconscious wish on some women's part to drink a man's semen in order to take into themselves the status the male is given in our society.

My latest and most unusual fantasy is that I am both a woman and a man and that I am having sexual relations with myself. I imagine that I am able to give myself all the sexual satisfaction I have ever desired. It is a complicated fantasy to work out, but I think eventually it will work.

del mismo modo que examinarse, escucharse y quejarse forman parte del eterno femenino, no quejarse forma parte del eterno masculino

Women are born actresses. They know all about adaptation; it's part of their identity as women.

tendría que reconocer cómo la dominación masculina ha hecho pasar por admirables ciertos rasgos que realmente no eran otra cosa que puntos flacos

De repente, los machos más moderados tuvieron acceso a las hembras e, increíble pero cierto, los machos jóvenes adoptaron unos modales más pacíficos a partir de la siguiente generación. Lo que había cambiado en el espacio de una generación evidentemente no eran los genes sino la educación: los recién nacidos machos no tenían un modelo de agresividad que imitar

To modern conservatives, women are first and foremost breeders.

Women and land were for the use and benefit of man.75

Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it—our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.

Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

For it is a fact that men must ejaculate in order to reproduce (although science may soon remove this necessity.) Women, on the other hand, do not need to achieve orgasm to reproduce. Men, therefore, have the clear advantage here, in that most of them find it very easy work to achieve sexual satisfaction.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

And that age was known as the Golden Age, until it was spoiled by the arrival of the women. —Snorri, Edda

Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.

Why is it considered acceptable to carve up a person's body to match their inner sense of self but bigoted to help them change their sense of self to match their body?