Gender Quotes

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We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the cont

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Suffering Gender Other

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man no

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

Experience Love Sex Gender Sexuality Men And Women Orgasm Experiences Experience Mistakes Wisdom Sexual

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Men Feminism Equality Reason Independence Flattery Hypocrisy Empowerment Gender Rationality Misogyny Double Standards Clichs

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenishe

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Science Sex Gender Biology

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.

Feminism Women History Dignity Empowerment Gender Witches Misogyny Persecution Social Norms Suppression Anonymous Authorship

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Inspirational Gender Possibility

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must b

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.

Gender Androgyny Gender Identity

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against qual

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.

Gender Sexism Misogyny Misandry

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Women Creativity Empowerment Gender Skills Liberation Abilities Encroachment Artists Arts Careers Occupation Restrictions

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woma

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Feminism Morality Hypocrisy Liberty Dignity Empowerment Gender Misogyny Chastitiy Double Standards Encroachment

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must te

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

Men Work Equality Women Empowerment Gender Jobs Skills Abilities Instruction

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is m

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

Men Feminism Women Empowerment Gender Emancipation Misogyny

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

Christopher Hitchens

Racism Gender Race Tribalism Barack Obama Bigotry Hillary Clinton Identity Politics Sexism Skin Colour

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every hum

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

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

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

Problems Women Empowerment Fiction Gender On Fiction Women Writers