Quotes About Gender

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role.

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

Why extol the idea of changing one's sex while simultaneously denigrating the idea of changing one's race?

The basic beer ad: big-breasted babes in bikinis. Beer won't get you babes. But if you drink enough, you think they're babes, and if you drink more, you can grow your own breasts.

Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Being alive and being a woman is all I got but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Yaz?k ki erkekler, ??mart?ld?klar? zaman nerede durmalar? gerekti?ini ço?u zaman bilmezler. Kad?n?n, bunu hat?rlatmas? ise, utanç verici bir uyarmad?r onlar için. Ya da baz?lar? için öyledir. Belki nesli tükenmeye ba?layan garip yarat?klard?r art?k bu çe?it erkekler. ??te biri daha öldü gitti.

Fakat bizde erkeklerin, k?r?tmaya çal??arak hizmet etmesi bir garip oluyor. ?yi terbiye edilmemi? sirk hayvanlar?na benziyorlar. Efendimiz, milletimiz u?akl??a al??am?yor bir türlü.

Gerçek mühendislerin k?z çocu?u olurmu?.

It's wrong to assume that I must be a sex you're familiar with," it said, "but as it happens, I'm male.

You know the kind of shit men say to one another when they want to stop other men from listening to a woman.

There were still some Humans who insisted on seeing the ooloi as some kind of male-female combination, but the ooloi were no such thing. They were themselves—a different sex altogether. So

Haven't you seen the men slaves in this country who are used for breeding? They are never permitted to learn what it means to be a man. They are not permitted to care for their children.

It bothered me very much that they took both women away. The fat crazy woman had been permitted to go about her business until someone resisted. Then both victim and victimizer were treated as equally guilty.

Some middle class men prove they're men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships. Some upper class men prove they're men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

He had a man's voice already. He had everything but a man's brain.

JOÃO CHOSE AAOR. HE accepted help from it and talked to it and caressed its small breasts once he realized that neither it nor anyone else minded this. The breasts did not represent true mammary glands. Aaor would probably lose them when it metamorphosed. Most constructs did, even when they became female. But João liked them. Aaor simply enjoyed the contact.

When men have absolute power over women who are strangers, the men rape.