Quotes About Gender

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

We, the women, who rule the house But ours is not to question why… Ours is but to do and die and Husband never to defy.

We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores.

sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony

The body of the average woman is 27 percent fat, that of the average man 15 percent fat. The leanest elite female athletes may get their body fat down to 11 or 12 percent, but that is nearly double the percentage of body fat found on the elite male athlete

humans have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes and that the pairs of chromosomes are the same in men and in women, with the exception of pair number 23—the sex chromosomes. In that case, women have two X chromosomes and men have one X and one Y. Moreover, a woman's two X chromosomes look pretty much like all her other chromosomes. Chromosomes resemble Xs.

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

I don't want to make too much of androstenedione, though. Testosterone isn't the only hormone that's overrated. All hormones are ultimately overrated, as well as poorly understood. But even though we know this mantra, we still get shackled by testosterone and need a new perspective to shake ourselves free.

In college in the late sixties, I read almost exclusively male writers, usually dead, from England and the rest of Europe. They were very far removed from my daily life, and though I loved them, none of them reflected my experience. I must have subconsciously surmised that writing was not within my ken. It never occurred to me to write, though I secretly wanted to marry a poet.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Hatori: "That being said, Yuki... when did you become a woman?" Yuki: "How dare you say that after you've seen me naked so many times...

For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.

She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous woman was not supposed to complain about her husband. Her duty was perfect obedience.

Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

Now I realised that the least deluded of all woman was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women.