Gender Quotes

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...

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.