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Quotes About Gender

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
~ Taslima Nasrin
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
~ Mercedes Ruehl
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
~ Dale Spender
The proper study of mankind is woman.
~ Henry Adams
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
~ Pierre Corneille
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
~ Angela Davis
Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.
~ Jill Johnston
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
~ Alice James
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
~ Charlize Theron
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
~ Garry Kasparov
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
~ George William Curtis
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
~ Jane Austen
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
~ George William Curtis
Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
~ Dan Savage
Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
~ Warren Farrell
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
~ Tertullian
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
~ Thomas Sowell
Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
~ John F. Kerry
Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.
~ Widad Akreyi
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
~ Helen Rowland
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
~ Dora Russell
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
~ Leslie Feinberg
Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.
~ Maxine Kumin