Gender Quotes

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....

The king was pregnant.

I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; ...

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...

And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real ...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart a...

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity an...

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...

You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it look...

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...

[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important thing...

I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. The...

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.Our women are respected...

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like ...

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at o...

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and pract...

You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,’ I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced b...

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matte...

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his fee...

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed...

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionar...

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universa...

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...