Gender Quotes

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...

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 ...