Gender Quotes

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, ...

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

--As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to a...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by soci...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting,...

When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughte...

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women h...

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one th...

JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!""Um," I said."We kissed," the Duke said."Tha...

Sorry," I said to the Duke."Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel....

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence i...

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that ...

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is ...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe t...

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally...

Democracy does not speak in unison; its tunes are dissonant, and necessarily so. It is not a predict...

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and sim...

To be called a copy, to be called unreal, is thus one way in which one can be oppressed. But conside...

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else...

Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure o...

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute anima...

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan...

The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”.There is a great answer...

It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id...

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is f...

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manuf...

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privilege...

Being transgender guarantees you will upset someone. People get upset with transgender people who ch...

We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's...

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their e...

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gende...

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We c...

From the moment we take our first breath (and sometimes even before that, what with sonic imaging te...

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video d...

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole ti...

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like i...

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedo...

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beau...

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? I...

Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or ...

Most of the people on the Cloud Ark were going to have to be women.There were other reasons for it b...

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...

Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t...

I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled str...

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all ...

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for...

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, ‘she’ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever ...

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of conf...

[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears...

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multit...

Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is u...

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I a...

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

A lot of people think if they’re shouting the loudest, they’ll be heard, but most people lose respec...

Woman is the opposite, the ‘other’ of man: she is non-man, defective man, assigned a chiefly negativ...

You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bun...

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

It wasn't that dwarfs weren't interested in sex. They saw the vital need for fresh dwarfs to leave t...

You're free to wear whatever you want, you know

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic ...

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid w...

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which...

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.”Vokep shook his head g...

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his...

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage....