Gender Quotes

The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do."I'd g...

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Ma...

And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and there...

There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather tha...

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which r...

I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, t...

The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle...

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggest...

Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage b...

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prej...

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is li...

Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the mascul...

But whence came this curious difference between them? He found that he could point to no single feat...

The two creatures were sexless. But he of Malacandra was masculine (not male); she of Perelandra was...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature ...

If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic met...

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it lik...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage...

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had...

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evi...

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically ...

​If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over a...

Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bot...

I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to b...

Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a l...

So, no, this conversation is about gender. Some people will say, "Oh, but women have the real power:...

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.

Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a...

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background...

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for po...

Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their pos...

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an ...

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We ne...

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be ma...

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and...

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double p...

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about qu...

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-minded...

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious in...

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be th...

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of ...

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms ...

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation ...

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their r...

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

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...