Gender Quotes
Jess C. Scott
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
1417Jean Kerr
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
4538 Moderata Fonte
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
2047 Patton Oswalt
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
4187 Gavin De Becker
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
2679 Virginia Woolf
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
4751 Michael Bassey Johnson
Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect.
1873 David Sedaris
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
4850 Plato
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
2608 Pearl S. Buck
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
4542 Edward Carpenter
Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.
2387 Bauvard
Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.
4634 Henry James
I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.
3023 Neal Stephenson
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
2868 Tomson Highway
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.
3843 David Markson
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
2565 Christine De Pizan
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
3308 M.E. Thomas
When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.
3187 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
4209 Edmond Mbiaka
No matter your race, level of education, gender, age, religion, cultural beliefs, physical appearance, social status, financial status and more, always remember that you are as important as everyone else.
1701 Lori Ziganto
The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.
4411 Abiola Abrams
How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.
4785 Suzanne Venker
If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.
3007 Natalie Angier
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.
2672 Virginia Woolf
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
3050 Mary Wollstonecraft
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
3678 Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
2655 Dorothy L. Sayers
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve - it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
2556 Michael Bassey Johnson
Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the door.
4707 Ashly Lorenzana
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
2513 Vera Nazarian
A woman is human.
She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.
Likewise, she is never less.
Equality is a given.
A woman is human.
2521 Julia Serano
In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.
3977 C.C. Campbell
The mirror of life shows you woman or man,
But in the heart of the Soul you are neither.
This is why Love is blind.
1821 D.H. Lawrence
Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won't accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex.
1718 Gloria Ng
For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.
3806 Marian Keyes
...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...
3017 Nadia Scrieva
Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.
3152 Begona Aretxaga
Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.
4794 Alicen Grey
No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.
Me.
4084 Miya Yamanouchi
Dear Men Everywhere,
Please don't think that being a feminist means we hate you or don't need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn't live without you! ...We are just on a mission to be treated equally and with respect. No hard feelings.
With love, Feminists of the World xoxoox
P.S. Yes we do shave our legs!
1789 Virginia Petrucci
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
1540 Alice Walker
First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man
2320 Ali Smith
He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.
2362 Catherine Ryan Hyde
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
4646 Jess C. Scott
Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
3862 Ellen Kushner
He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.
4724 Marianne Moore
You are not male or female, but a plan
deep-set within the heart of man.
1850 Cassandra Danz
I think the Big Bang theory must have been invented by a man. A woman would have wanted it to take longer and insisted on a commitment.
2232 Chauntelle Tibbals
Sex has to do with your physical body, while gender has to do with your social expression of a range of masculinities and/or femininities (and/or neutralities).
3664 Judith Butler
If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
3895 Christyl Rivers
An internet phenom named Laci
is quite intelligent and yet, racy
If you think you're well read
Just give her your head
Sexy facts can, in fact, be quite tasty
2441 Sara Sheridan
It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.
4271 Sara Sheridan
What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?
1220 Kate Bornstein
We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith
1793 Jodi Lynn Anderson
But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.
2994 Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
2148 Jeffrey Eugenides
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
4695 Antonia Fraser
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
1197 Sara Sheridan
Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.
1186 Dorothy L. Sayers
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
1051 Charlotte Brontë
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil - improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
1317 Charlotte Brontë
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.
2795 Hendrik Hertzberg
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
4782 Charlotte Brontë
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
3898 Pam Farrel
A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.
1435 Núria Añó
She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.
1796 Widad Akrawi
Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.
3409 Charlotte Brontë
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
1527 Charlotte Brontë
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
4112 Mary Wollstonecraft
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
4518 Charlotte Brontë
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
3888 Mary Wollstonecraft
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
3538 Dorothy L. Sayers
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
3100 Mary Wollstonecraft
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
3846 Dave Hill
It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.
3438 Sundeep Lal
Music Has No Religion Nor Gender" See Its a ___W___A___V____E___ and You Can Modify It !!! So What Are You Up To.. ?
4597 Jeffrey Eugenides
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
4730 Susan Griffin
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
3593 Virginia Woolf
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
3224 Randall Munroe
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
4903 David Brooks
Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.
4724 Jane Austen
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
2977 Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
3845 Dorothy L. Sayers
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him - or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
4880 Mary Wollstonecraft
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
3748 Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
3927 Rudyard Kipling
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
1187 Björk
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.
4566 William Golding
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
1472 Barbara Ehrenreich
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
1643 Moderata Fonte
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.
3755 Christine De Pizan
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
4182 Dorothy L. Sayers
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
3276 George Sand
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."
(Letter, 17 June 1837)
3343 Dorothy L. Sayers
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
1918 Christine De Pizan
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
2920 Christine De Pizan
[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.
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