Gender Quotes

Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later.

Tears don’t make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?

the hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.

Being equal does not mean being the same.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage, " [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And later a letter to the powers-that-bedemanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.

The future shouldn't be female or male---but one of women and men working together. That's the real definition of equality.

absolute equality not possible . what is possible, we can honour the qualities in each person .that would reduce this gap

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

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

Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.

Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.

Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.

Like I said, hearts can be tricky things. Sometimes gender doesn't matter when two souls connect.

Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference.

Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.

The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.

Real men are advocates for women's rights.

Gender imbalance is, at its root, a collective spiritual crisis.

Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.

The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!

Bringing light of our personal and social consciousness to dark corridors of human pain that have long been neglected and suppress.